The canceled Jurassic Park 4 had a bizarre premise, but it'd oddly make for the perfect Jurassic World Dominion follow-up.
Following the first three Jurassic World movies, the perfect idea for Jurassic World 4 already exists, and it was originally planned to be used for Jurassic Park 4. 2015's Jurassic World arrived 14 years after Jurassic Park III, but a follow-up to the 2001 release was supposed to be much earlier, and it was a straight-up sequel instead of a reboot. Jurassic Park 4 was slated for a 2005 release with Sam Neill reprising his role as Alan Grant (via IGN). In 2002, Neill explained, "Out of all the concepts that have been created for these movies, this is possibly my favorite," but that, unfortunately, never happened.
Filmmaker Joe Johnston, who directed Jurassic Park 3, and William Monahan, the award-winning screenwriter who wrote The Departed, were both attached to direct and write Jurassic Park 4. However, they both lost interest midway through development and following that, a revolving door of writers and directors joined the development with no headway. After years of development hell, a very different movie to what was originally planned, Jurassic World, was released in 2015. But while the idea sounded way too farfetched for the Jurassic Park series at the time, it'd be the perfect premise for Jurassic World 4 given how the franchise has developed and dinosaurs have become genetically modified.
Jurassic World 4 Could Feature Dinosaur Mercenaries
Jurassic Park 4's original premise was about a group of genetically engineered dinosaur mercenaries (via Den of Geek), and that was already hinted at from the very first Jurassic World movie. Velociraptors were being trained by humans, and genetically modified dinosaurs were being weaponized. The fictional dinosaur the Indominus, similar to the T-Rex in design, could even camouflage itself and mask its heat signature. Though the Jurassic Park sequels were doomed and the canceled Jurassic Park 4 idea sounds overly ambitious, fully realizing the concept is the logical next step after Jurassic World Dominion. However, the fourquel should still hold back a little, as the Jurassic Park 4 plot bizarrely followed dinosaurs hunting down drug dealers.
The Jurassic World Series Has Already Older Used Old Jurassic Park Ideas
Every Jurassic World has made over $1 billion worldwide, but that's rather surprising given that it's made up of abandoned ideas that weren't good enough for Jurassic Park III. While developing Jurassic World III, a lot of ideas were thrown around, including a sequence involving a giant aquatic reptile, and a sequence involving evading raptors on motorbikes. Those sequences were finally used in Jurassic World and Jurassic World Dominion, respectively. In fairness, the first sequence would have been nigh-impossible to achieve 10 years earlier without the development of digital effects.
Jurassic World did borrow one thing from the development of the canceled Jurassic Park 4 too. During the development of the fourquel, a new mercenary character called Nick Harris was created. Harris was a mercenary who trained genetically modified Deinonychus. Chris Pratt plays Owen Grady in Jurassic World, and though he isn't a mercenary, he's a Navy veteran who trains genetically modified Velociraptors, which a very similar to Deinonychus. As the Jurassic World series has already borrowed Jurassic Park 4 details and has dropped hints at an army of dinosaur mercenaries, it's the best possible idea for Jurassic World 4.
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