7:26 pm - 09/13/2012
In a fascinating tease at what might have been, James Cameron, in a recent interview with The Huffington Post, revealed that he came very, very close to adapting Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park and that Steven Spielberg beat him in securing the rights "by a few hours."
What would a Cameron-directed Jurassic Park have been like?
"I'd have gone further," says the Avatar director. "Nastier, much nastier... [M]ine would have been 'Aliens' with dinosaurs."
Of course, Spielberg's take on the property is widely considered to be a modern classic and even Cameron admits that he probably wouldn't have been able match its cinematic charm.
"[W]hen I saw the film," he continues, "I realised that I was not the right person to make the film, he was. Because he made a dinosaur movie for kids... Dinosaurs are for 8-year-olds. We can all enjoy it, too, but kids get dinosaurs and they should not have been excluded for that. His sensibility was right for that film."
Spielberg's Jurassic Park was released in 1993, spawning two additional sequels. The following year, Cameron released True Lies before turning his attention to 1997's Titanic.
Jurassic Park will return to theaters in 3D on April 5, 2013.
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James Cameron Nearly Directed a 'Nastier' Jurassic Park
In a fascinating tease at what might have been, James Cameron, in a recent interview with The Huffington Post, revealed that he came very, very close to adapting Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park and that Steven Spielberg beat him in securing the rights "by a few hours."
What would a Cameron-directed Jurassic Park have been like?
"I'd have gone further," says the Avatar director. "Nastier, much nastier... [M]ine would have been 'Aliens' with dinosaurs."
Of course, Spielberg's take on the property is widely considered to be a modern classic and even Cameron admits that he probably wouldn't have been able match its cinematic charm.
"[W]hen I saw the film," he continues, "I realised that I was not the right person to make the film, he was. Because he made a dinosaur movie for kids... Dinosaurs are for 8-year-olds. We can all enjoy it, too, but kids get dinosaurs and they should not have been excluded for that. His sensibility was right for that film."
Spielberg's Jurassic Park was released in 1993, spawning two additional sequels. The following year, Cameron released True Lies before turning his attention to 1997's Titanic.
Jurassic Park will return to theaters in 3D on April 5, 2013.
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Aliens was flawless
Avatar was pure shit
Edited at 2012-09-13 11:32 pm (UTC)
Oh really? Awesome, I've never seen it!
Edited at 2012-09-13 11:47 pm (UTC)
fuck you man he made schindlers list, I still haven't recovered from that movie
and jaws
and indiana jones
and saving private ryan which i've never seen because it's really long and always on late
I didn't know that "'Aliens' with dinosaurs" was something I wanted until now
how about every great* movie
Edited at 2012-09-13 11:43 pm (UTC)
That's why it still looks amazing today.
its's one of my favorites and i watch it like once every few months and i am always amazed at how well the effects stand up today