My choices, my picks so take them with a pinch of salt since I want to know yours first and foremost.
What do I think can share the same universe as Wildwood (2026)?
The Secret Of Roan Inish
https://youtu.be/Q-iB\_TEB0Jw?is=R3zSTY7hbuMZ8cht
Project Hail Mary
https://youtu.be/m08TxIsFTRI?is=AIKCfBdMNCy-A7J1
War Of The Worlds (2005)
https://youtu.be/LFYDgBhhE3Q?is=sWm9gvNBrtaRZA5O
Warhammer 40,000: And They Shall Know No Fear (Secret Level)
https://youtu.be/ncauRK9f75Q?is=d93IVqjQ0s-aubqT
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Jack The Giant Slayer
Here's what I have, these are my choices. What I want to know are yours so take mine with a grain of salt.
The Island
https://youtu.be/sOxspReyzOI?is=K49IEtx06spFDKTW
The Secret Of Roan Inish
https://youtu.be/Q-iB\_TEB0Jw?is=q5GJfE4cnCOfvf8z
War Of The Worlds (2005)
https://youtu.be/pgcQd60sXso?is=Zm4Jc07STJHY5Pqw
Wildwood (2026)
https://youtu.be/qU3hpxx6cAI?is=tfTCWcoABm7SU--H
Alan Wake
https://youtu.be/tAqZJNCINfo?is=lpfwFfoSLKdHbBNF
Control
https://youtu.be/PT5yMfC9LQM?is=KTfbghl-8I0FKPu9
Alias
https://youtu.be/MgH\_\_HxVoLY?is=qT2l\_nO5jESKGBrg
Firewatch
https://youtu.be/d02lhvvVSy8?is=xdZY1CYyluaJkMop
Con Air
https://youtu.be/pN6OAa-cK1w?is=cBbRa8ZknLPHZaeR
Face/Off
https://youtu.be/8ce557hlgEM?is=Z-V4hsGOUBs9O5ZR
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Telltale's The Walking Dead (first two seasons)
Me personally, it was... okay.
It clearly needed work and had some glaring problems that needed to be fixed up pronto but with that said, it has its moments and interesting ideas.
You?
This should be interesting because I would really love to know other fans' choices with this since the Jurassic Park Trilogy along with the unproduced Sayles draft of Jurassic Park IV are so much more grounded when it comes to the set-pieces, scenarios and dinosaurs themselves whereas the Jurassic World movies, even if you like them, you gotta admit are Fast & Furious-esque live action macho cartoons with dinosaurs in them.
So let's just cut it all back, cut all the fat out and come up with this for fun, just for the hell of it.
For me, on my end, I'm thinking that maybe (take this with a pinch of salt) the Jurassic Park Trilogy and Sayles' JP IV script can be set in the same universe as the following:
Valkyrie (2008)
Jaws & Jaws 2
Close Encounters Of The Third Kind
E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial
The Secret Of Roan Inish
Crossfire: Good Conflict (Secret Level)
Project Hail Mary
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Wildwood (2026).
But now, what's yours.
• A sequel to Jurassic World: Rebirth is OBVIOUSLY in development but apparently director Gareth Edwards, screenwriter David Koepp and the main cast including Scarlett Johansson won't return.
• Jason Statham (yes, THAT Jason Statham) is being eyed for the new lead while Mark Wahlberg and John Cena are close contenders.
• Travis Beacham, David S. Goyer and Gary Whitta are considered to write it, replacing Koepp and currently Beacham may actually get the job.
• The directors however that are being considered are Travis Knight, Michael Bay, Gore Verbinski, Louis Leterrier, Sam Raimi and Andrew Stanton. All for the next Jurassic World movie potentially. At the moment, it's a four way tie between Knight, Bay, Raimi and Stanton.
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• The D-Rex from the previous movie is not only set to return but for the first time since Jurassic Park III, will be made the main star of the film, fully replacing the T-Rex and being the new skeleton on the Jurassic Park logo.
There are only two things known about it even if it's by very few people –
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1). A draft was completed by Gary Whitta (The Book Of Eli, Rogue One & Telltale's The Walking Dead) that was reportedly far more faithful to the original video game than the last attempt at a movie was.
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2). The directors that were being considered for it were Alex Proyas, the now infamous Bryan Singer, Kevin Smith, Stephen Sommers and Robert Rodriguez as Thomas Tull (the founder and former CEO of Legendary) was a fan of The Faculty.
Me, a good friend of mine (and I damn well mean that) in real life who I've known since I was a teenager and his mentor have been bouncing around ideas for our potential first pr___ct at our pr___ti_n c___any and one that all three of us have responded very strongly to is a 2D animated 13 episode mini-series in the Jurassic Park franchise that is a soft continuity reboot, serving as a direct sequel to the Original Trilogy and ignoring all Jurassic World installments, and will be a hard TV-MA that doesn't pull any punches.
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JURASSIC PARK: ROGUE GENESIS
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The premise is that set several years after the events of Jurassic Park III (so basically present day), the dinosaurs of both Isla Nublar and Isla Sorna have faded away into myth, urban legend and conspiracy theory with many people believing that they never existed in the first place. But here we are in the Caribbean as we follow as our main protagonist Kane Archer (voiced by and modeled after Jason Statham), an ex-Navy Seal who if anything is a cynical and sarcastic combo of a hardass and wiseass that nowadays get by as a hired mercenary who only cares about getting his paycheck on time, who is hired by none other than InGen to infiltrate Isla Nublar which has been taken over by the Grendel Corporation, a dangerous and morally questionable top-of-the-line weapons company, in order to retrieve a Barbasol can containing Embryos that was lost during a disaster in '93 on said island.
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Yet that's just the set-up. It's when Kane gets to Isla Nublar that he sets off what is ultimately a domino effect and everything goes off the rails in a globe-trotter as Kane himself finds that not only does the can contain DINOSAUR Embryos and that the dinosaurs are anything but legend or wiped out, he also lands himself right smack dab in the middle of a full-fledged conspiracy involving Grendel having put together their own utterly unstoppable commando squad of dinosaurs that are being led by a Tyrannosaurus Rex from Nublar, a male and female Tyrannosaurus who are mates from Sorna and a Spinosaurus also from Sorna, all armed and equipped with the latest advanced firearms and technology that Grendel has recently created.
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All the while, several storylines set in different parts of the United States occur that are directly related and tie in to the main plot, thus turning this into an enormous ensemble full of colorful personalities now having to actually use everything they've got in order to survive such as a bratty girl in Portland who must save her baby brother after he's abducted by Pternadons, a group of fired circus performers in San Francisco who are mistaken for the wrong people, an overprotective father in Sydney trying to get his son who's been separated from him back, two rival hockey teams also from San Francisco finding themselves stuck together whether they like it or not, a dysfunctional family from Chicago with fourteen children getting stranded in the middle of the ocean and many more... with each and every one in danger eventually of being ripped apart by dinosaurs.
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THE VOICE CAST:
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Honestly, there's so many I'll give you a mere few cause I don't think I can fit them all here but...
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JASON STATHAM
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PATRICK WARBURTON
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DAVE FOLEY
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JULIA LOUIS-DREYFUS
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DENIS LEARY
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ED O'NEILL
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WILLEM DAFOE
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LILIMAR
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AMY POEHLER
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LEWIS BLACK
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ZOE SALDANA
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GAEL GARCIA BERNAL
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Yet that's only a few.
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THE SHOWRUNNER/HEAD WRITER:
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I already know who the perfect guy to lead this mini-series is and I can't think of a more perfect choice.
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TRAVIS BEACHAM
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travis\_Beacham
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He's ideally suited for this, no one else than him.
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THE DIRECTOR:
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All 13 episodes will be directed by the same guy and again, I have the perfect choice in mind.
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GORE VERBINSKI
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gore\_Verbinski
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He's as close to a perfect choice for this as you can possibly get for this idea.
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NOTES/TRIVIA/DETAILS:
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• JURASSIC PARK: ROGUE GENESIS will be done in the exact same art style as underrated comic book artist Tony Moore who will be the lead designer for the series with his style (especially his incredible expressions, atmosphere and attention to details) blending in perfectly with the tone and overall feel I'm going for with it. It will have a distinct use and intentional stark contrasting of colors throughout with the same sort of aesthetic as Casino Royale, Captain America: The Winter Soldier and The Incredibles, at times very Bond-esque just with dinosaurs.
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• It won't be so reliant on the Original Trilogy for you to understand or get into it. What I mean is that it will vaguely reference the events as the 1993 Jurassic Park disaster, the 1997 T-Rex in San Diego and the 2001 Isla Sorna rescue mission as well have the Barbasol can playing a major role, the rotting corpse of Dennis Nedry appearing, InGen of course and yes, the large predator dinosaurs are heavily implied to be the same ones from the trilogy. But every single thing, it will go "Alright, done with that part. Now back to being our own thing".
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• To make up for all Jurassic World anything not being canon, we'll have there be several subtle, like Black Mirror-subtle, easter eggs scattered throughout that heavily implies a retroactively established shared universe with other media in this continuity that shows not only is there so, so, so much more to this universe than dinosaurs having been brought back to life in the 90s. For example, during the mini-series, they'll vaguely mention something that happened back in the 80s in the San Fernando Valley with a stranded extraterrestrial and was reported to have involved "kids on bicycles flying through the air".
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• The mini-series, as you can tell, will have an enormously large ensemble cast of characters that are like if you took the amount of characters in the Toy Story Quadrilogy, A Bug's Life, Finding Nemo/Dory and the Inside Out Duology and put them together with all of them having their memorable and colorful personalities along with the same organic flow of comedy going through all the characters like an early Pixar movie but what makes it work is that not only are Kane and the antagonists serious but all the dinosaurs are also treated completely seriously and are still threats, never once are they made jokes or farces.
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• When I say the mini-series will be a hard TV-MA, I mean it big time with not just strong language but plenty of brutal, graphic and vicious violence that if anything are way more in line with the original books from Michael Crichton but it won't be just dinosaur violence, it will also be gunfights, arms breaking, stabbings, all kinds of different fun stuff such as Kane going full Wolverine with his knife skills in a mansion as it's being raided by Grendel soldiers. You don't have to have dinosaurs in a sequence like that in order to be awesome.
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I hope this was at the very least a great, fascinating read cause the Jurassic Park Trilogy really was a huge part of my childhood and if this ever gets made than I really do want to do it justice.
If you want to know about the previous trivia I shared about him since not much is known about the guy who created one of the greatest movies ever made and I was incredibly curious than give this a read:
https://www.reddit.com/r/PacificRim/s/ubjYWdWFKn
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Now with that out of the way, let's begin with the new ones I managed to dig up.
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• His favorite filmmakers are Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Francis Ford Coppola, Stephen Sommers, Chris Sanders and Christopher Nolan with him wanting to work hopefully with Sommers as he's a huge fan of THE MUMMY (1999) and called it "one of the best movies ever".
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• He is currently in consideration to write the next JURASSIC PARK/WORLD installment, nothing has been signed and he's just being considered. All he said is he had an idea for where to take it and that's all. Will it happen? I have absolutely no idea.
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• He thinks that the PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN TRILOGY is the perfect trilogy, even putting it above others, saying that it even serves as a huge influence for him and his writing. That said, he still has no interest in seeing the fourth and fifth movies as he says AT WORLD'S END was the perfect ending – "A perfect finale or close to one".
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• What inspired him to get into filmmaking/screenwriting as a kid was believe it or not, the stop motion animated Rankin/Bass special NESTOR: THE LONG-EARED CHRISTMAS DONKEY which he watched numerous times on VHS until one night, he decided after watching the scene where Nestor's mother dies that he wanted to make movies after all.
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• What does he think of CARNIVAL ROW as he left even though it was both his concept and first spec script he wrote back in 2005: "The first season was damn solid if I do say so myself, everyone did a stellar job on that. But the second season, while not bad, is a downgrade which is unfortunate but sometimes it happens to certain shows".
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• Beacham can't stand politics and thinks they're such a "cancer on society" even saying that although he wasn't super big on Charlie Kirk, anyone who celebrated his death or said "good riddance" or both should "go fuck their mother" or "go kill themself". That's that. He's right though.
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Just like the last batch of trivia that I shared, I hope this was worth the read and that you both like and respect Travis Beacham more than you ever did before as a PACIFIC RIM fan.
Let me explain. See, without giving anything huge away, me, a friend and his mentor whose already an established writer started up our own production company officially last night and before we announce it to the world, we want to decide first which will be our first project so that we already have it locked in tight. We'll specialize in movies, TV, animation, video games and comic books but it's that last part that got me thinking. As a kid, I grew up big time with the Jurassic Park Trilogy and had so many toys to where I was basically a dinosaur fanatic and I decided to throw a potential first project on the table for us to do, to get our name out there and show what we can do while also telling an actual story. What potential first project even is it? You already read it. A quality comic book adaptation of the infamous John Sayles script of Jurassic Park IV leaked onto the internet in 2004. By quality, I mean a legitimately well done and good adaptation of it. We would make only a few story changes and additions to help flesh it out but overall, it would remain the same and be a wild read nonetheless.
About three changes I have in mind:
• Joshua's obnoxious, nerdy younger brother at the beginning who is reading Harry Potter and who could care less about the baseball game ends up in a rather darkly comedic moment, getting killed and torn in half by the Pternadons after it all looks like it's finally over and as he says the cliched "Remind me never to go anywhere with you-", blam, snatched up and has his head and left leg ripped off.
• A common criticism of the script which has been pointed out by the people who've read it and even Steven Spielberg himself is that there's no large predator dinosaur at all except for maybe the Kronosaurus so I thought why not put in a main large predator dinosaur, in this case it would be the Spinosaurus that becomes the main leader of the raptor squad and it's implied through just one line of dialogue it's the same one from JP III.
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• I would have the main protagonist, Nick Harris, be modeled after Kiefer Sutherland along with having many of his mannerisms and behavior on the page being inspired a little by him. Thankfully, that's the most simple change.
Last but not least though, the comic book artists that I would consider for it are Charlie Adlard, Ryan Ottley, Tony Moore, Meredith Laxton and Darick Robertson with each bringing their own styles to the project that heighten it and give it a unique visual flair you would never expect to see when you first think of Jurassic Park.
What I would do to start things off is just bite the bullet and embrace it being a large scale, big budget B movie.
JURASSIC WORLD: STORM PROTOCOL
The premise would be that set some time after the events of Jurassic World: Rebirth, we follow as our main protagonist Kane Archer (played by none other than Jason Statham) who is a cynical and sarcastic hardass ex-Navy Seal that works now as a hired mercenary with his nose out for his next paycheck. It's here that while soaking up some sun at the Caribbeans, Kane is contacted by the United States government as being the only one they can count on due to his expert skills out in the field to infiltrate enemy territory and retrieve an important hard drive along with a certain "Barbasol can" from Île Saint-Hubert which has been taken over by Mercer Corporation, a British weapons company that specializes in state of the art advanced weaponry.
Yet that is just the set-up. From that point on, things go completely off the rails in a wild and visceral way as not only does it wind up turning Kane into a globe-trotter but the conspiracy unravels as he finds himself in the middle of it when it's revealed that Mercer has put together their own commando squad of top predators consisting of Rexy (from the Original and JW Trilogy), Buck & Doe (from The Lost World), Spino (from JP III), a pack of Velociraptors (implied to be the same ones from III), a pack of Dilophosaurs (implied to be the same ones from Dominion: Extended Cut), a Therizinosaurus (from Dominion: Extended Cut), a group of Spinosaurs from Île Saint-Hubert (implied to be the same ones from Rebirth) and the D-Rex (from Rebirth), all trained and armed with their latest technology.
The screenwriters I'd consider for it:
Mark Swift & Damian Shannon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark\_Swift\_and\_Damian\_Shannon
Travis Beacham
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travis\_Beacham
Daniel Way
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel\_Way
David Hayter
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David\_Hayter
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Jeremy Slater
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy\_Slater
But the directors I'd consider for it:
Louis Leterrier
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis\_Leterrier
Stephen Sommers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen\_Sommers
Gore Verbinski
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gore\_Verbinski
David Yates
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David\_Yates
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Julius Avery
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius\_Avery.
An unapologetically insane, hyper rollercoaster popcorn ride that ends in South America where before breaking free of their control under the humans, our commando squad take down an entire fortified drug lair and kill the notorious drug lord within.
2026 has so far been a year full of pleasant surprises when it comes to media (obviously not all but for the most part) and one of them is Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die which is a solid 8.5 out of 10 movie and a comeback movie from Gore Verbinski better than it had any right to be. A better Doctor Who story than anything modern Doctor Who.
Now with that said, this is where my question comes in. Since the guy is finally back making movies after The Lone Ranger (which is still a terrible movie btw, it's basically the Pirates Trilogy done wrong) put him in director jail for YEARS, what project would you like, love or be interested in seeing him do next.
I would love to see him do something that is just as distinct as the stuff he's done but at the same time also completely different from what he usually does.
If I had to pick because he's one of my favorite filmmakers than I would go with these three.
JURASSIC PARK: ROGUE GENESIS
A 2D animated and R rated Jurassic Park movie that's done in the same art style as the work of comic book artist Tony Moore and is a direct sequel to the Original Trilogy, ignoring all Jurassic World movies.
ALEXANDRA
Another R rated animated follow-up that this time is a standalone/stop motion animated sequel to the new upcoming LAIKA movie Wildwood now with the villain Alexandra Svik as the anti-hero lead.
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A BULLSEYE SPECIAL PRESENTATION
Obviously, I couldn't come up with a great enough name but oh yeah, you heard me. A new Marvel Studios Special Presentation with Wilson Bethel as Bullseye. That is ALL I need to say.
But again, these are my personal choices. I gave these as examples of what I'm looking for and what I'm talking about. I asked a friend same question and he said he would be curious to see what Gore Verbinski would do for an episode of Love, Death & Robots which sounded beastly as shit.
The director of the Pirates Of The Caribbean Trilogy directing an episode of Love, Death & Robots. *chef's kiss*.
Your move. 🎲
At first glance, this seems like another disaster incoming. ANOTHER Home Alone sequel, ANOTHER installment that ignores all the others after Lost In New York. And believe me when I say, I know too well how it already sounds. But that's why I put on my writer's cap *boop* and thought "How do you make a good Home Alone sequel not only a decade later but after four terrible ones everyone hated and no one remembers?". This is what I came up with:
HOME ALONE: TRAPPED IN PARADISE
Set in Chicago on the days leading up to Christmas Eve, we follow 9 year old Mark Levy, one of the youngest children in the dysfunctional Levy family which consists of over 13 children who is already more of an outcast in this already chaotic family due to his oddball nature and love for all things reptile. It's here the whole family is getting ready for their holiday vacation to California when all the stress and tension finally boils over after Mark's pet toad gets out and makes quite the disastrous mess which leads to his older sister accidentally killing it. Having had enough of his family, he wishes that he never had any to his overwhelmed control freak of a mother. As all this intentionally echoes the first movie, a series of rather unfortunate events and mistakes wind up causing the family to leave Mark behind to where not even any of the modern tech they have can be able to get through to him. This is where things take an interesting divergence from the classic formula...
See, before all of this even happened, another series of events happened with both Mark and the Levys that not only finds its way back to but directly brings in the now-adult McCallister siblings, the older now estranged father Peter McCallister (played by a different actor for obvious reasons) and the even more estranged Frank McCallister who has become a crazed homeless bum no ones likes and finds an annoyance. Each of them, including Trenton or as you all know him by his nickname – Buzz, are all dealing with their own problems in their personal lives with either not being able to give their own dysfunctional families a good Christmas, their marriages falling apart, having been fired from their jobs, having split up from their wives or husbands and just all around struggling to make end's meet. Subverting expectations in an actual good way, they end up having every justifiable and understandable reason to take back what's theirs when they're eventually forced to and are left with no other choice but to steal it back in order to obtain their different goals such as make their kids happy, prove that they're competent caretakers, for once be a good brother, for once be a good uncle and more. There's just one thing standing in their way and that's Mark who UNDERSTANDABLY SO believes that there are robbers attempting to break in as with the other houses in his neighborhood.
There will be several new twists and turns as well as aspects added that are basically the seasonings and potatoes added to the meat that make it way more than some utterly soulless rehash such as the Levys being more fleshed out and having their own mini-storylines and mini-arcs, the returning McCallisters all being humanized, the actual storyline being surprisingly layered with many things happening all at once, Mark being anything but a carbon Kevin copy, the humor at times being incredibly visual and surreal in a very Malcolm In The Middle-esque way, the slapstick being a lot more kinetic and visceral like the type you'd see in Mouse Hunt or The Blues Brothers and so on, so forth.
The writers that I would consider for it are:
DAMIAN SHANNON & MARK SWIFT
DAVID S. GOYER
ROB SCHRAB
JEREMY SLATER
GARY WHITTA
JUSTIN THEROUX
JUSTIN MARKS
LINWOOD BOOMER
JOHN AUGUST
CHRISTOPHER MARKUS & STEPHEN MCFREELY
SARAH VOWELL
ALFRED GOUGH & MILES MILLAR
JOSH FRIEDMAN
RONALD D. MOORE
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TRAVIS BEACHAM
However, the directors that I'd consider on the other hand:
SAM RAIMI
DAVID F. SANDBERG
J. MICHAEL MURO
TOBY HAYNES
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN
CHRIS BARRETT & LUKE TAYLOR
SHAWN LEVY
LOUIS LETERRIER
MICHAEL GIACCHINO
REINALDO MARCUS GREEN
JOSEPH KOSINSKI
ANTOINE FUQUA
GORE VERBINSKI
STEPHEN SOMMERS
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DAVID YATES.
All of these choices are completely different one from the other and the ones that you'd never once in a million years expect to make a Home Alone legacy sequel... but that's EXACTLY why they're perfect because you don't expect them.