Jurassic Park

[jmtd]

God no to a reboot. The book is darker but is fundamentally unfilmable since the dinosaurs were just a backdrop, the book was about exploring chaos theory.

[Vertigo]

The book is darker but is fundamentally unfilmable since the dinosaurs were just a backdrop, the book was about exploring chaos theory.

That's a bit of an overstatement, one of the major elements that makes the book so great is that it explores a number of cutting edge subjects in great detail. Genetic technology and the culture of commercial science is explored in just as much detail as chaos theory, and far from being a backdrop, Jurassic Park was the most critical publication in popularising the dinosaur revolution. Despite all the research that had gone into proving that many dinosaurs were active, social, childrearing, perhaps even endothermic and ancestral to birds, the concept of 'dinosaur' in the public consciousness still represented a primitive monster lizard plodding towards obsolescence and extinction. That book, and the film even more so, changed all that.

The film did water down most of the book's concepts, but I agree, a direct book-to-screen wouldn't work. There's too much detail and complexity for a movie to flow properly, and it's perhaps a bit dark for a family blockbuster.