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Universal’s Jurassic Park 4 will proceed without franchise producer Kathleen Kennedy. Asked on Twitter if Kennedy was still producing the pic, Kennedy/Marshall’s Frank Marshall replied: @LeDoctor: No, Ms. Kennedy has moved onto Star Wars and will not be producing JP4. She’s traded raptors for TIE fighters. Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver (Rise of the Planet of the Apes) penned the script for Jurassic Park 4, which Marshall is producing with Steven Spielberg executive producing. The 3D fourquel has yet to lock a director but has a release date of June 13, 2014. Kennedy’s history with the dino franchise goes back 20 years: She served as producer on Jurassic Park (1993), The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997), and Jurassic Park III (2001), which tallied a three-film total of $1.9 billion globally. Kennedy, who produced Spielberg’s Best Picture nominee Lincoln, recently stepped into her new post as President of Lucasfilm and is exec producing the J.J. Abrams-helmed Star Wars: Episode VII, due in 2015.
Kathleen Kennedy Departs ‘Jurassic Park 4′
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This might be a good thing. Some fresh blood will hopefully breathe new life into a franchise I dearly love. Less family friendly and more terror like the original. I’m pumped and I hope this change doesn’t delay the release date.
Wow — one less producer… how will they ever get it done now?
So Jurassic Park 4 just needs to hire a new blockbuster level producer; hire a director; find a cast; do pre production ; film; do post production (heavy special effects); all within 1 year 4 months to make their 6/13/14 release date?
They will probably have to bail out a couple more SFX houses too…
…, not if it’s going to be a cheap found footage type film.
*cough*
That kind of speed seems commonplace on Hollywood blockbuster sequels these days. And it’s pretty obvious they suffer from lack of proper script development. Transformers sequels, Die Hard 5, etc.
Before she leaves to run LucasFilm, lets give Kathy Kennedy an Oscar.
Vote Lincoln for Best Picture….
Agreed! Lincoln for Best Picture!
Look, Lincoln was a solid movie. On par with Amistad, but far from Spielberg’s best. I agree with Sam Jackson that it could’ve had a much stronger (visual) ending if they’d stopped five minutes earlier.
That said, the CAMPAIGN for best picture is one of the most vulgar attempts to “buy” an Oscar I’ve ever seen. Anyone who lives in the LA area can attest to the fact that there are WAY too many TV spots running right now. If anything, it’s actually convinced me to vote against it. Call me naive… you shouldn’t have to shove a best picture down people’s throats.
Agreed. Lots of local Oscar ads on morning television (“Today” on NBC and “Sunday Morning” on CBS come to mind). If I get ARGO tattooed on my forehead, I know who to blame for the subliminal influence.
Hollywood will vote for the ’70s-set Argo because they’ve confused it for a ’70s-quality film. It’s a good thriller. Not a best picture.
Oh no you di’in’t!
Not true. When a director can make Ben’s sometimes God awful acting not awful I think he deserves Oscar gold even if he happens to be well you know…
So basically she’s departed from one tired old creatively exhausted franchise, and has joined another tired old creatively exhausted franchise. A producer of her ilk should be looking for the NEXT big thing and convincing studios to back it – not ride on the coat tails of 20-30 year old film series that are box office sure things. Where’s the challenge in that?
Ha ha ‘dream up something new,’ you exist so far from reality that I actually kind of admire you.
That rug really tied the room together.
Hey Anon, “a solid movie, on a par with Amistad,” is NOT a compliment. Wasn’t Lincoln a little better than that thunker?