Post by politicidal on Apr 4, 2018 3:09:49 GMT
..and he says his vision of Jurassic Park was far darker than what Spielberg wound up filming.
James Cameron's version of "Jurassic Park" would have been much darker than Steven Spielberg's, at least according to Cameron himself.
The iconic director of "Aliens," "Titanic," and "Avatar" told HuffPost UK that he had always wanted to adapt "Jurassic Park." Cameron said he tried to buy the rights to the novel by Michael Crichton, but Spielberg "beat me to it by a few hours."
But it was all for the best, according to Cameron.
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"When I saw the film, I realized that I was not the right person to make the film, he was," Cameron said. "Because he made a dinosaur movie for kids, and mine would have been 'Aliens' with dinosaurs, and that wouldn't have been fair ... Dinosaurs are for 8 year olds. We can all enjoy it, too, but kids get dinosaurs and they should not have been excluded for that. His sensibility was right for that film, I'd have gone further, nastier, much nastier."
James Cameron's version of "Jurassic Park" would have been much darker than Steven Spielberg's, at least according to Cameron himself.
The iconic director of "Aliens," "Titanic," and "Avatar" told HuffPost UK that he had always wanted to adapt "Jurassic Park." Cameron said he tried to buy the rights to the novel by Michael Crichton, but Spielberg "beat me to it by a few hours."
But it was all for the best, according to Cameron.
markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/james-cameron-tried-to-buy-the-jurassic-park-book-rights-2018-4-1020390912
"When I saw the film, I realized that I was not the right person to make the film, he was," Cameron said. "Because he made a dinosaur movie for kids, and mine would have been 'Aliens' with dinosaurs, and that wouldn't have been fair ... Dinosaurs are for 8 year olds. We can all enjoy it, too, but kids get dinosaurs and they should not have been excluded for that. His sensibility was right for that film, I'd have gone further, nastier, much nastier."
