Re: JP III Wishful thinking /Raptor Red

[Gertrude Smith <gsraptor@arkansas.net>]

Steven S. Lazarus wrote:
> 

> It would be truly interesting to see Cameron's approach. He would have to
> top Spielberg in the realism department. He's that kind of guy. For my
> money, he is the more talented filmmaker.
> 
> There will be a JP III and it will be produced not directed by Spielberg.
> Hopefully, whomever he hires will have creative license and it won't be a
> Tobe Hooper/Poltergeist situation. It's highly unlikely that Spielberg
> would hire Cameron because of his lack of budgetary concerns and the same
> can be said of Ridley Scott. That's a damn shame really because the JP
> material would truly get the hard-edge treatment it deserves and would no
> doubt be better received by those aren't as forgiving as I am.
> 
> Maybe we could start a campaign to persuade Cameron to take on a "Raptor
> Red" type of picture as an antithesis to Spielberg's LOST WORLD.

It is my understanding that RAPTOR RED is or will be done as a movie.

>  How fun would it be to have a
> "Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom" approach, combined with ILM's CGI
> dinosaurs and Winston's animatronics and Cameron's or Scott's no-nonsense
> hard edge?!! LOST WORLD, as exciting as it is, would look like a cartoon in 
> comparison.


> happily living in a fantasy world,
> SSL
Does anyone have information on how RAPTOR RED-THE MOVIE is coming
along? Dr. Bakker?

Gertrude Smith
gsraptor@arkansas.net