Neil
30-Jan-2013, 09:34 AM
http://www.cinemablend.com/new/james-cameron-almost-made-jurassic-park-32957.html
Cameron recently made an appearance at the recently-opened Titanic Museum in Belfast and revealed to The Huffington Post that he was beaten to the rights by Spielberg by just a few hours. What's surprising, though, is that while Cameron had a full developed idea of what he could turn Michael Crichton's story into, he actually humbly admits that what Spielberg did with the material was much better than what he had planned.
"When I saw the film, I realised that I was not the right person to make the film, he was," Cameron said. Because he made a dinosaur movie for kids, and mine would have been Aliens with dinosaurs, and that wouldn't have been fair...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."
Would have been interesting to see Cameron's darker Jurassic park!
Cameron recently made an appearance at the recently-opened Titanic Museum in Belfast and revealed to The Huffington Post that he was beaten to the rights by Spielberg by just a few hours. What's surprising, though, is that while Cameron had a full developed idea of what he could turn Michael Crichton's story into, he actually humbly admits that what Spielberg did with the material was much better than what he had planned.
"When I saw the film, I realised that I was not the right person to make the film, he was," Cameron said. Because he made a dinosaur movie for kids, and mine would have been Aliens with dinosaurs, and that wouldn't have been fair...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."
Would have been interesting to see Cameron's darker Jurassic park!