Johnston talks JURASSIC PARK IV

Speaking with Ain't It Cool News, director Joe Johnston says that there is a story for a fourth Jurassic Park picture and "it sort of takes the franchise off in a completely different direction, which is the only way I would want to get involved."

Weirdly enough, Johnston says that the sequel not only wouldn't go back to Jurassic Park itself, but also wouldn't feature a group of people trying to survive a dinosaur attack.

"Why would anybody go back to that island?" Johnston said. "It was hard enough to figure out the second and third reason for them to go, but it would take it off in a whole other trilogy basically, but when it gets to that level it's sort of about studios and Steven [Spielberg's] thing and who knows. I think we are at that point where we are due for another one if we are going to do it."

It's true that the series needs shaking up and I can maybe see not returning to Jurassic Park (although that seems a little odd, since the entire franchise is named after the island). But how do you do one of these movies without people being chased around by dinosaurs? I mean, isn't that sort of the whole point?

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