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The other night on James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction, Cameron and Spielberg were talking to each other about films and Jurassic Park came up. Cameron said he tried to get the rights but Spielberg had just barely beaten him to it. Spielberg just laughed
And Cameron told Spielberg that the Jurassic Park he would have made would have been like 'Aliens' with dinosaurs. And it would've been R rated. And much nastier than the film Spielberg made. But Cameron also said when he saw the film Spielberg made, he knew that the director's chair had gone to the right man. He said Spielberg was smart to make it a family movie. And he said Spielberg still made it scary, just scary enough, but never crossed the line to becoming straight horror.
That was the first time I'd ever heard about this. James Cameron's Jurassic Park???
Damn I would have loved to have seen that. Spielberg made an all time classic but I would still like to see Cameron's version. The "nasty, R rated, Aliens-ish, Jurassic Park.
What do you guys think....would Cameron's Jurassic Park have been as good or better than Spielberg's?
I also found a print interview Cameron did about JP. Apparently we were only HOURS away from getting James Cameron's Jurassic Park!
: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-...park-film-rights-franchise-book-a8287876.html
The Jurassic Park franchise almost ended up rather differently with Steven Spielberg ousting James Cameron to directing rights by a few hours.
Spielberg won the chance to adapt Michael Crichton's novel which Aliens director Cameron himself levels was probably a good thing.
The filmmaker, speaking to Huffinton Post at the Titanic Museum in Belfast, revealed that any animosity he felt dispersed the moment he saw Spielberg's 1993 classic.
“When I saw the film, I realised that I was not the right person to make the film - he was,” Cameron said, adding: |Because he made a dinosaur movie for kids, and mine would have been aliens with dinosaurs, and that wouldn’t have been fair."
He continued: “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, I’d have gone further, nastier - much nastier.”
Spielberg acquired adaptation rights with assistance from Universal Studios for $1.5b (£1b) ahead of the novel's publication in 1990. Author Crichton was hired to write the screenplay for an additional $500,000 (£355,000), and the resulting film was the highest-grossing film of all time until Cameron's very own Titanic in 1997.
And Cameron told Spielberg that the Jurassic Park he would have made would have been like 'Aliens' with dinosaurs. And it would've been R rated. And much nastier than the film Spielberg made. But Cameron also said when he saw the film Spielberg made, he knew that the director's chair had gone to the right man. He said Spielberg was smart to make it a family movie. And he said Spielberg still made it scary, just scary enough, but never crossed the line to becoming straight horror.
That was the first time I'd ever heard about this. James Cameron's Jurassic Park???
Damn I would have loved to have seen that. Spielberg made an all time classic but I would still like to see Cameron's version. The "nasty, R rated, Aliens-ish, Jurassic Park.What do you guys think....would Cameron's Jurassic Park have been as good or better than Spielberg's?
I also found a print interview Cameron did about JP. Apparently we were only HOURS away from getting James Cameron's Jurassic Park!
: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-...park-film-rights-franchise-book-a8287876.html
The Jurassic Park franchise almost ended up rather differently with Steven Spielberg ousting James Cameron to directing rights by a few hours.
Spielberg won the chance to adapt Michael Crichton's novel which Aliens director Cameron himself levels was probably a good thing.
The filmmaker, speaking to Huffinton Post at the Titanic Museum in Belfast, revealed that any animosity he felt dispersed the moment he saw Spielberg's 1993 classic.
“When I saw the film, I realised that I was not the right person to make the film - he was,” Cameron said, adding: |Because he made a dinosaur movie for kids, and mine would have been aliens with dinosaurs, and that wouldn’t have been fair."
He continued: “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, I’d have gone further, nastier - much nastier.”
Spielberg acquired adaptation rights with assistance from Universal Studios for $1.5b (£1b) ahead of the novel's publication in 1990. Author Crichton was hired to write the screenplay for an additional $500,000 (£355,000), and the resulting film was the highest-grossing film of all time until Cameron's very own Titanic in 1997.
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