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Laura Dern revealed on Twitter that a new Jurassic Park movie is coming out in June 2022 (fingers crossed the virus is not still such an issue then, but something else will have come along, I’m sure)
Hopefully this is the long awaited: Jurassic Park- We’ve Sorted It. In which the dinosaur park is safely set up, no dinosaurs escape and people just have a good time looking at them. Tag line - This time, we learned our lesson.
I am not even joking. I would genuinely like to see a film about a dinosaur park that gets set up fine, nothing goes wrong, people learn about dinosaurs and the owner turns a handsome profit. I thin there are too many films and TV shows where stuff goes wrong. It gives us a bad and unfair impression of technological advances. Oh, sure, make a big series about Chernobyl where everything went wrong and not one about all the other nuclear power stations in the world that have operated successfully for decades without any real incident? I’d love to sit back for a few evenings and blitz the box set of that.
Equally I think it’s time for a series of the Walking Dead where the survivors come together and build a successful township with no serious attacks from zombies or fighting with rival and evil tribes. Just watch the vegetables grow and love blossom and town council meetings sorting out mundane problems. Who’s to say that that wouldn’t get as many viewers as everyone making the same mistakes over and over again, getting eaten and pissing off some mental person who has somehow convinced real people to live in the woods wearing the skin of the dead.
Maybe there’s enough drama and death in real life to make entertainment escapist in a different direction.
Genuinely. I think it would make us feel a lot better about ourselves, less afraid and more hopeful.
People just getting on with stuff and generally succeeding. It’s a more honest story. And in the case of Jurassic Park it would really make people more open to the idea of having one of those in real life. It’s frankly unrealistic that people keep making the same mistakes and not learning from the previous fuck ups. I reckon if there were six Jurassic Parks in real life that at most, one of them would have an incident where a dinosaur ate a person. It happens in zoos every now and again and yet zoos carry on.
I had an enjoyable afternoon recording some extra promotional content for RHLSTP in which I got to drink some nice whisky. Who would have thought I would get a job where I’d be paid for afternoon drinking? Just goes to prove that if you mess around and refuse to grow up and get a proper job that eventually things will go your way.
Lovely RHLSTP this evening with the multi-talented and funny Stevie Martin (not that one).
You can watch on Twitch or wait two weeks for the podcast
RHLSTP with Michael Fenton Stevens is now up
Also a chance to get a badge and signed bookplate if you have preordered (or are going to) The Problem With Men.
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