This is my pitch for a new animated Jurassic Park series that will be hand-drawn instead of computer animated.
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.