As James Cameron prepares to debut in theaters Avatar: Fire and Ashthird chapter of his adventure and science fiction saga, the filmmaker asks us what it would have been like Jurassic Park (1993) if he had directed instead of Steven Spielberg.
The original novel by Michael Crichton He offered some very interesting material for developing a unique science fiction film when he told us about a dinosaur theme park project that went wrong.
James Cameron already had his eye on the proposal and was determined to obtain the rights to Jurassic Park create his own reinterpretation of the work, but failed.
In an interview published in 2012, the director of avatar explained how Steven Spielberg was “a few hours ahead of him” in purchasing the “rights to the book”, although he recognized that the film had ended up in good hands, a position he continues to defend to this day.
“He was the right person to do it,” he said. James Cameron In a recent interview with the magazine empire. “Not me, because it would have made it too scary and PG. It would have been like Aliens with dinosaurs.”
Steven Spielberg was the best director Jurassic Park could have had
As he explained in 2012, when Cameron saw the film he realized that he “wasn’t the right person to do it”, but rather Steven Spielberg, “because he made a dinosaur film” with children in mind, unlike his darker version: “And that wouldn’t have been fair”.
According to James Cameron, dinosaurs are for the “8 year old” audience because, although everyone can “appreciate them too”, the younger audience “understands them and should not have been excluded because of this”. The filmmaker concluded by highlighting the “perfect sensitivity” for Jurassic Park that Steven Spielberg had and that he lacked.
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