New Films, New Options, New Rumours....

[Robert Zwilling]

The latest Jurassic World, Jurassic World Rebirth, number 7, will be coming out in the summer of 2025. I have lost track of them, the movies, not the dinosaurs. Now the dinosaurs are coming. All new characters, new cast, apparently new story. Dinosaurs are running free around the equator and apparently on their way to taking over the world. Looking to future takes with dinosaurs beating out SkyNet and AI as humanity's new rulers. Planet of the Dinosaurs is right around the corner. Getting samples of dinosaur DNA is the goal, this time for the benefit of humanity. Gareth Edwards is the director, a fan of the original Jurassic Park, and the man who retrofitted the 2014 Godzilla, giving more screen time to the humans.
Official trailer

What If trailer

 

[BAYLOR]

The latest Jurassic World, Jurassic World Rebirth, number 7, will be coming out in the summer of 2025. I have lost track of them, the movies, not the dinosaurs. Now the dinosaurs are coming. All new characters, new cast, apparently new story. Dinosaurs are running free around the equator and apparently on their way to taking over the world. Looking to future takes with dinosaurs beating out SkyNet and AI as humanity's new rulers. Planet of the Dinosaurs is right around the corner. Getting samples of dinosaur DNA is the goal, this time for the benefit of humanity. Gareth Edwards is the director, a fan of the original Jurassic Park, and the man who retrofitted the 2014 Godzilla, giving more screen time to the humans.
Official trailer

What If trailer

They really should stop making Jurassic park films . This one has been milked to death.

 

[Pyan]

They really should stop making Jurassic park films . This one has been milked to death.

Maybe, but that doesn't stop the studios if they're still making money. Why, you'll be suggesting they stop making 'Star Wars' films next!

 

[BAYLOR]

Maybe, but that doesn't stop the studios if they're still making money. Why, you'll be suggesting they stop making 'Star Wars' films next!

I wanted Knights of the Old Republic.

 

[Dave]

I was visiting RHS Wisley on Saturday and the Hilltop there was dressed as a film set. Filming was beginning on Sunday. I think it has to be some kind of SF Film because it was dressed as a medical clinic (I've forgotten it's name due to the server crash, sorry) but it was named for a woman who died in 2023 of Alzheimer's, and whose son went on the find a cure for the disease. There were wall displays with a fake history of drug development and brain implants. These were incredibly detailed considering they will only provide a background. The toilets became the entrance to lifts, with a basement that doesn't exist. There was a false reception and the library was dressed as a... library. There was a map on the wall and it shows this clinic was meant to be near Dulles airport, Fairfax, Virginia. The surrounding gardens will likely feature in the filming too as there was a cherry-picker outside with cameras. There was also a large number of other vehicles belonging to the film crew parked up beyond the orchards.

Does anyone know what film it could be? I looked at the lists of films in production, pre-production and development hell, but can find nothing that would match. It also doesn't seem to match any book that I've read or heard of. I did an internet search on the, now forgotten clinic name, but it came up blank. It may be a TV series, but whatever it is, I'm very curious now. My guess would be (because of the mention of brain implants) some kind of medical treatment gone wrong thing, maybe like Terminal Man or Coma?

I did discover that quite a lot of 1960's and '70's Doctor Who was filmed in, near and around that part of Surrey, and Shepperton Studios is located close enough to make that part of Surrey easily accessible for "country" locations.

However, while looking for "new films, new options and rumours," I did discover The Six Million Dollar Man, Avatar 4 and 5, Star Trek: Section 31, Superman: Legacy, Wolf Man, Jurassic World Rebirth, 28 Years Later, Karate Kid, The Batman Part II, the Fantastic Four, Captain America: Brave New World, Frankenstein, Avengers: Doomsday, Scream 7 and many more.

 

[Dave]

Does anyone know what film it could be?

No one?

 

[AE35Unit]

Be interesting if it was Terminal Man. Or possibly a F. Paul Wilson story like The Touch about a man who can heal people by touching them.

 

[KGeo777]

I cannot believe how poor the FX are in the newer Jurassic movies.
So mechanical and uninspired.
The texturing is superior but everything else is bland as hell.
The best dinosaur animation is in documentaries it would seem.

 

[paranoid marvin]

I don't think that Hollywood has ever been in a worse state. Uninspiring sequels and reboots, and being consistently outperformed by streaming channels.

 

[Vladd67]

They really should stop making Jurassic park films . This one has been milked to death.

Instead of bringing back dinosaurs in more Jurassic Park films how about going to the dinosaurs in a film based on the 2000AD story Flesh?

 

[AE35Unit]

I don't think that Hollywood has ever been in a worse state. Uninspiring sequels and reboots, and being consistently outperformed by streaming channels.

Yes, some originality would be nice. To think of all those stories out there awaiting a good movie adaptation.

 

[CupofJoe]

No one?

There was a piece in a local paper about filming at Wisley. I skimmed the article and vaguely remember that is was an Amazon production. It might have been Project Hail Mary?

 

[Dave]

Project Hail Mary

It's not that, but thanks anyway (filming finished in June.) What I've learnt is that Wisley has been used a great deal, for all kinds of things. The nearby Painshill Gardens have also been used frequently (Bridgerton). I expect one reason is that they are quite easy to get to (M25/A3 junction) or they would be if not for the current roadworks.

 

[KGeo777]

Instead of bringing back dinosaurs in more Jurassic Park films how about going to the dinosaurs in a film based on the 2000AD story Flesh?

That is certainly different.
I would like to see this
AI dreams

 

[AE35Unit]

Oh god...

 

[Dave]

There was filming last weekend in Glasgow for the new version of The Running Man. My son saw it being filmed, but it was in the Newspapers as they took over several streets.

It will star Glenn Powell in Arnie's role. Directed by Edgar Wright with Emilia Jones and Michael Cera. There is hope that it will be more faithful to the Stephen King book.

(Dave would question why we need a new version of The Running Man? Or Rollerball, or The Clockwork Orange, or any other those 1970's speculations on the future appetite for violence within society, considering the rise of Reality TV and Telethons, in which watching people forced to beat the living daylights out of each other, or to humiliate themselves eating animal genitals and physical punishments, or by gruelling cycling or dance off marathons, is already here, and is mainstream prime time TV.)

 

[BAYLOR]

They're doing a remake of Forbidden Planet ?

 

[Droflet]

They're doing a remake of Forbidden Planet ?

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Foxbat]

I note that Alien: Romulus is out on DVD/Blu-Ray on Dec 2nd so I'll probably buy a copy. Some say it's good, others not so but buying it on disc will be cheaper than going to the cinema (if you add in hot dogs, popcorn, drinks) so no great risk.

 

[Dave]

Not science fiction, and possibly a TV series, but I saw filming today on canal boats on Regent's Canal, between the Zoo and Camden Lock. I was told it was for a new Guy Richie thing. Saw Tom Hardy with an actress who might have been Joanne Frogatt. If it is The Associate then it's a TV series that has also been filming recently in London Docklands, and also stars Helen Mirren and Pierce Brosnan.