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romanD · #16 Post by **romanD** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 2:23 am

at least I hope they bring in the "invisible" chamaeleon dinosaurs from the second book. That was a marvellous idea!
Of course a decent story wouldn't hurt and I guess to make it different they really have to go off the island now! I was already bored with the island setting in part 2...

yeah, that the T.Rex killed everyone on the ship (even in small rooms) and then locked himself back in the cage just showed how little Spielberg really cared for the movie, which he had to do for contractual reasons. But apparently in the audience nobody gave much thought about that particular scene.

AndyDursin · #17 Post by **AndyDursin** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 10:44 am

romanD wrote:yeah, that the T.Rex killed everyone on the ship (even in small rooms) and then locked himself back in the cage just showed how little Spielberg really cared for the movie, which he had to do for contractual reasons. But apparently in the audience nobody gave much thought about that particular scene.

I'm fairly certain if Spielberg didn't have to do JAWS 2 for contractual reasons he didn't have to make THE LOST WORLD if he didn't want to, either. Certainly his company was going to be involved regardless but I don't believe he was "bound" to direct THE LOST WORLD, especially at that stage of his career. I believe he said he felt "responsible" for making it, but he definitely didn't have to for contractual purposes.

romanD · #18 Post by **romanD** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 5:24 pm

Im pretty positive that I read somewhere a couple times, that Spielberg had a contract with Universal to make 5 movies and they forced him to make the last one of those 5 the LOST WORLD...

JP already showed a big lack of enthusiam from his side (the final TREX stuff was finished by George Lucas and he already worked on SL in Poland), so I don't think he really cared for a sequel... he surely didn't need another hit for his career, so what reason should he really have had? Especially to go on with such a lousy script. Still, hte movie has some great setpieces, but mainly are just great from a technical point of view. As I said, only Williams seemed to have some fun with it (btw, the main theme sounded a lot like Michael J. Lewis's THE PASSAGE march... a promo which came out around the time of LW if Im not mistaken...

one of the few instances where you can presumably hear Williams following a temp track... another is MINORITY REPORT and DEATH BECOMES HER)...

AndyDursin · #19 Post by **AndyDursin** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 6:18 pm

romanD wrote:Im pretty positive that I read somewhere a couple times, that Spielberg had a contract with Universal to make 5 movies and they forced him to make the last one of those 5 the LOST WORLD...

JP already showed a big lack of enthusiam from his side (the final TREX stuff was finished by George Lucas and he already worked on SL in Poland), so I don't think he really cared for a sequel... he surely didn't need another hit for his career, so what reason should he really have had?

Universal couldn't even force him to make sequels to E.T. and JAWS back when he had less prominence (relatively speaking) in Hollywood. There's no way on Earth they had him "contractually bound" to direct THE LOST WORLD. Even if he was finishing a Universal contract, he could have EASILY chosen another movie instead...there's no way they were dictating what he was making at that stage of his career, coming off "Schindler's List" of all things.

Spielberg's efforts might have been half-hearted but they were entirely his doing...like I said I believe he felt "responsible" because he started the series with JP and claimed that he wanted to continue it himself. He would have been better handing it off to someone like Joe Johnston with LOST WORLD before waiting another installment to do so.