Stan Winston on Jurassic Park III

By Azad March 19, 2001 3:16 PM

In the upcoming Jurassic Park III, Dr. Alan Grant (Sam Neill) once again returns to the island where he almost became dino feed nearly a decade before. And now, he's back for more of that tingly dino action. And this time, Grant isn't running away from the fearsome Tyrannosaurus, but rather, another deadly dino, a relatively obscure carnivore known as Spinosaurus (Latin for "spine lizard," a name it earned thanks to a large, fan-like ridge on its back).

Cinescape was able to talk to Stan Winston regarding some of the effects we'll be seeing in Jurassic Park 3. "One of the big things [the JP III team decided] was, 'Well, we've got to out-do the T-rex," says Jurassic Park/Lost World and all around special creature effects veteran Stan Winston, who is once again creating life-sized dinosaurs for the production. "So the Spinosaur is bigger and meaner and badder."

The humans only manage to escape from this new threat temporarily. Velociraptor ambush scenes are plentiful, and they also have to worry about fighting off attack from above. Oh, joy for the effects department.

"You're going to see Pteranodons [a breed of flying dinosaur] in this, which are entirely another level of technical difficulty because we are dealing with a combination of animatronics, men in suits [and] wings that are beyond what we've done in the other movies," Winston says.

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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on March 19, 2001 4:48 PM

It will be great to see Winston Modelling instead of all computer generated dinosaurs. In both the first and second Jurassic Park, many of the scenes did not look realistic enough (as good as they were.)  Especially the brontosaurus scene.  Models are still superior to CGI for many special effects.

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Posted by kablguy (kablguy1@home.com) on March 19, 2001 5:44 PM

I hav'nt seen a Jurassic Park 3 book. Does Michael Crighton have anything to do with the script?

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Posted by Acheron (denny@dtheatre.com) on March 19, 2001 5:48 PM

I think that he and Spielberg are producers, but I don't think he wrote the script.  I could be wrong.

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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on March 20, 2001 5:58 AM

Rumor has it that Speilberg is courting George Lucas for the rights to incorporate JAR JAR BINKS into the J-3 script.  Apparently, JJ and Sam Neil are old college buddies who haven't seen each other in years.  In the only scene that has leaked to the public, Sam Neil and his team are about to kill one of the Dinosaurs when JJ comes out of the bushes and cries for them to stop.  It turns out that the dinosaur is JJ's lover.  Sam Neil can't beleive it, his old college room mate and buddy, here on this island, could it be.  The two embrace, have a torrid love affair and end up killing the same dinosaur in the end when goes postal after finding out about JJ's new lover.

Sounds like a winner to me.

JOD

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Posted by hanskristian01 (No Email) on March 20, 2001 7:07 AM

Speilburg isn't directing it

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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on March 20, 2001 10:32 AM

Since you know so much about who is directing, any word on the Jar Jar Sam Neil buddy angle?

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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on March 23, 2001 12:04 PM

No one said Spielberg was directing, we said he's producing.

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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on March 25, 2001 5:39 AM

Have you seen him lately? I ran into him at Pep Boys last weekend and he is looking rough. Seems he has developed a taste for BaliHi and Ritz crackers and nearly got busted selling stolen Waffle House flatware to a cop in a sting operation.

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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on March 27, 2001 6:06 PM

I hear they paid Michael Crichton NOT to write this one. He should have left the game after the "Jurassic Park" novel.

Give James Cameron the reigns and we'd see a REAL dino movie.

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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on May 5, 2001 11:05 AM

Crichton wrote the story and the script and stuff but he isn't going to make a book.

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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on May 7, 2001 8:15 AM

The problem in JP was that there was too much modeling. That brontosaur scene you're discussing--actually brachiosaurs, and not brontos. And that fakeness came when there wasn't a CGI. Did you see how horrible it looked when Lex was petting it, and how good it looked when it sneezed? Live action vs. CGI.

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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on June 12, 2001 10:40 PM

What you mean is "Give it to James Cameron in the 80's."  James Cameron sucks now...  He goes back to all his old scripts and ideas for his modern movies.

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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on July 21, 2001 6:05 PM

I don't like that idea that the T-Rex gets killed by the Spinosaurus cuz the Tyrannosaurus Rex is smarter stronger faster and is the largest meat eater of all time and that fight was a fluke!!

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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on September 13, 2002 12:17 PM

Damn straight!

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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on October 20, 2002 1:53 PM

I now wiy spinosaurus won. thay now that people are tired of seing T.rex chomp on the terists.

spinosaurus vs t rex   reply

Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on February 23, 2005 1:39 PM

i know about dinos there are 3 meat eaters bigger than rex and spiny is one of them it is bigger stronger more lightly built ( for swimming-it ate mainly fish )and had huge arms, the fight didnt suprise me, i used to like rex but if your dumb enough to fight spiny you deserve to die im glad they got a new dino in i love the part with the phone ringging at the fence part, also the spiny didnt have vision based movement. and if you still think rex is better consider it may have been young and the spiny more experienced ( ever noticed the rexes get smaller and more real looking in each film, was it the baby rex from lost worl) anyway spinosaurus rules