Jurassic World trailer, stills, and more!

Who's excited for Jurassic World? I'm excited for Jurassic World! Here's the first trailer for the movie that will see the original vision for Jurassic Park finally brought to life, with a few dinosaur complications of course:



Alongside the trailer several still have been released on the Jurassic World website:

But there aren't nearly enough dinosaurs in the above image selection, so continue after the jump for oodles of screencaps from the trailer, to drink in every moment. Plus some other teases from the film:

Is this the new Jurassic Park?

In the world of infinity spawning sequels, there are a lot of films on the way I am excited about from lots of my favourite franchises. But right at the top of my oh-boy-I'm-excited-scale is the fourth Jurassic Park film, Jurassic World, which is due out in 2015.

It's rumoured Jurassic World will be taking us back is Isla Numblar, where a now successful and fully operational dinosaur resort has opened. Now concept art from the production gives us a look at what the future of Jurassic Park might look like, and it's quite spectacular. The Film Stage reports these images are from artist Nathan Schroeder:

Stunning! The new design seems to play off the original Jurassic Park visitor center, giving it a futuristic Calatrava-esque flare. If the final design is even half as impressive as this, the film is going to look amazing! Here's a look at what we might see inside:

Jurassic World, coming 2015!

Universal Pictures have officially announced the fourth film in the Jurassic Park series is coming! Released on the 12th of June 2015, in 3D (spared no expense) will be Jurassic World. The Jurassic Park Facebook page posted the blue tinted teaser logo for the film.

Deadline reports that the film will be directed by Colin Trevorrow, with a script from Trevorrow and Derek Connolly - The two have worked together on several films, although none I am familiar with. Steven Spielberg will be producing, along side Frank Marshall and Pat Crowley.

I love Jurassic Park, and The Lost World, and, well, Jurassic Park 3 has some nice dinosaurs in it... Lets hope Jurassic World can do justice to the earlier films. Hurry up 2015!

So blue tint, that surely means we're going to see pre-historical aquatic reptiles (not dinosaurs!) this time? And "Jurassic World", sounds like a new take on the original dinosaur theme park idea...

Beautiful Jurassic Park print

Quite possibly my favourite scene in all of cinema, the reveal of the brachiosaurus in Jurassic Park is so beautiful, so moving, and so awe inspiring. Seeing it again at cinema scale when Jurassic Park was re-released last year was just amazing, and I can't wait to try it out in 3D this year.

Now artist Mark Englert has made an equally magnificent print of this wonderful scene. It will be available for one day only, starting later today, so don't miss out:

Jurassic Park IV out next summer!

The news I've been waiting for since, ...well Jurassic Park III I suppose; Variety has just announced that Jurassic Park IV is going into production, and is set for release in less than a year and a half! On June 13th, 2014.

Steven Spielberg is set to produce a script by Rise of the Planet of the Apes' Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver. It will be shot in 3D, and that, is all we know. Given Spielberg just paused production on what would of been his next film, an adaptation of Robopocalypse, hopefully he will return to direct!

Whatever form it takes, a new Jurassic Park film fills me excitement! Although hopefully nothing has remained from the previously aborted dino-super-soldiers idea...

A remarkably articulate Tyrannosaur

Check out this incredible Jurassic Park Tyrannosaurs Rex action figure from Revoltech. It’s a bit diddly, at just 20cm, and a bit pricey, but it’s wonderfully detailed and highly articulated; with particularly impressive posing possibilities around the head and legs, plus a bendy tail:

 

 

Mondo's second Jurassic Park poster

On the subject of Jurassic Park, did you see Mondo's second Jurassic Park poster, released a couple of months ago? It was a thing of beauty:

Congratulations to those lucky 375 who got the standard version, and the other 125 who nabbed the edition without text. I was seconds away from being one of them frustratingly!

Jurassic Park Dangerous Games #5 preview

This week see's the release of the fifth and final issue of IDW's latest Jurassic Park comic series, Dangerous Games. Here's how IDW describe the finale:

Agent Espinoza has done the unthinkable and survived 24 hours on an island full of predators who want to kill him- both human and dinosaur. Now the end is near, and drug kingpin Cazares is the only thing standing in the way of Espinoza's freedom. Cazares, and an entire island of angry, rampaging dinosaurs thst is! It's a crazy, chaotic, climactic finish to Dangerous Games!

Continue after the jump for a seven-page preview:

New Jurassic Park reprints

Check out this beautiful omnibus of Jurassic Park and The Lost World. I'm very tempted to replace my mismatched copies with this pretty version:

Amazon's description:

From master thriller writer Michael Crichton: Two imaginative masterpieces of speculative science, full of adventure and larger-than-life characters. In Jurassic Park, scientists of today clone dinosaurs of the prehistoric past to serve as attractions in a modern theme park. When a rival biogenetic firm attempts to steal the scientists secret, the stage is set for a nightmare of science and dinosaurs run amok. The Lost World picks up the story six years later, with scientists scrambling to find the jungle island that served as the dinosaur production factory for Jurassic Park. Once again, rivalry and subterfuge combine to create life-threatening dangers for the scientists, who must contend with the rampaging dinosaurs as well as their cutthroat competitors. This volume contains the full text of both of Michael Crichton s bestselling novels. Featuring a beautifully stamped bonded leather cover, gilt edging, colorful endpapers, and a satin-ribbon bookmark, this collectible edition is a fine addition to any home library.

The novel omnibus is out already, while coming in January from IDW is their fourth omnibus of classic Jurassic Park comics: Return to Jurassic Park, Part One. With another nice cover:

Amazon's description:

The fourth volume of Classic Jurassic Park stories continues with Return to Jurassic Park #1-9, which contains the lead-in story to the four-issue adaptation of The Lost World. It also contains the two part stories "Heirs to the Thunder" and "Photo Finish" ending with the final issue, "Jurassic Jam," which featured multiple artists such as John Byrne and Walter Simonson.

And IDW's solicitation blurb:

The fourth volume of Classic Jurassic Park stories continues with Return to Jurassic Park #1-4. When a U.S. soldier is found floating, dead, off the coast of Costa Rica word makes its way to InGen headquarters in Palo Alto. Before long, Grant, Ellie, and Muldoon are headed back to Isla Nublar! And they're not going to like what they find on the island... Fills in the story between the first JP and The Lost World.

Jurassic Park Dangerous Games #4 solicitation

IDW's solicitations for December are out, which include the penultimate issue of the Jurassic Park series, Dangerous Games. Here's how they describe it:

Agent Espinoza has evaded near death on Jurassic Park countless times over the past 24 hours. Now he's looking to payback the man behind it all- drug kingpin Cazares! That means breaking into Cazares' headquaters in the Jurassic Park hotel... which is fortified with countless gun-toting goons! How can Espinoza storm the compound? A herd of triceratops might not hurt, for starters!

The issue will be available in a standard cover or black white retail incentive:

 

Out this week was the second issue of the series; if you haven't got it yet Comic Book Resources have a seven-page preview. Here's one page:

Jurassic Park: Dangerous Games #1 preview

The first issue of IDW's next Jurassic Park comic series, Dangerous Games, is out this week, and Comics Continuum have a five-page-preview. Here's the dramatic start:

You can see the rest, here.

Mondo: Jurassic Park

Mondo (who I regularly follow to update my Star Trek blog on their latest releases) have launched a new poster license. The first in the series was released exclusively with a screening of Jurassic Park at the Alamo Drafthouse, and a second poster will be available when the trilogythe trilogy is released on bluray next month (if they're anything like the Trek posters you'll have a couple of minutes to try and get one of the small editions of prints before they sell out). Here is the first poster:

And its blue variant:

Sources: Movies.com, /Film.

Jurassic Park returning to cinemas!

Jurassic Park is possibly my favourite film, so I am very excited to hear (from Empire) that it will be shown once more in cinemas at the end of this month (in the UK at least), ahead of the trilogy's bluray release.

Jurassic Park: Dangerous Games

IDW have just released their solicitations for November, which include the third issue of their latest Jurassic Park series: Dangerous Games, written by Greg Bear and Erik Bear, with art by Jorge Jimenez. Here are blurbs and covers for that series to date:

Dangerous Games #1

The time has come... to return to Isla Nublar! The famed original Jurassic Park island has become overgrown and wild after years of being stuck in United Nations limbo. A major criminal overlord has moved in and started using the island as a base of operations. Undercover agent Espinoza tries to bring down the drug cartel- but when he's found out, there's only one place to run... the dino-infested island interior! It's survival of the fittest at Jurassic Park!

 

Dangerous Games #2

The hunt begins! Detective Espinoza is on the run in the deadliest of locations... Jurassic Park! With well-armed goons on his trail, this is a seemingly impossible game to win. Luckily Espinoza meets Dr. Frances White, an animal behaviorial expert also trapped on the island. But how much help will Dr. White be when she leads him directly to a hungry T-Rex? This is the dino action you've been craving!

Dangerous Games #3

Agent Espinoza is being hunted on Jurassic Park, both by dinosaurs and a blood-thirsty drug cartel. Tired, hungry and sick of being the prey, a desperate Espinoza decides to flip the tables and start getting crafty! The end result is a battle to the death at the top of a waterfall with deadly dinos on all sides. It's maximum Jurassic action in this issue of Dangerous Games!

If you make your way to Chris Ryall's blog you can also see some interior artwork, and some of the cover artwork without titles. Like this beauty:

Interesting behind-the-scenes look at Jurassic Park CGI

Jurassic Park is one of my favourite films, and what I continue to be amazed by every time I watch it is just how well the nearly two-decade old effects hold up; they look better than many modern effects! Here's an interesting look at how those amazing effects were made: