Jurassic Park III Turns 25: The Script Was Scrapped 5 Weeks Before Filming
Joe Johnston had five weeks to save Jurassic Park III after Steven Spielberg killed the script — and the movie almost didn't survive the rewrite.
Casey is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved film critic who grew up watching the old-school action movie heyday dominated by the likes of Schwarzenegger, Stallone and Jackie Chan. Apart from contributing to Fortress of Solitude, he also regularly updates his own blog, Casey’s Movie Mania, as well as writing for Flickering Myth and Talking Films.
Muck Rack: https://muckrack.com/casey-chong
Joe Johnston had five weeks to save Jurassic Park III after Steven Spielberg killed the script — and the movie almost didn't survive the rewrite.
A three-year lawsuit, a nervous studio, and an $18.5 million gamble — the risky road that turned Aliens into one of the greatest sequels ever...
In a classic example of what not to do with a legacy franchise like Ghostbusters, Paul Feig's 2016 reboot was a hard lesson that it's...
25 years after The Score paired Robert De Niro and Marlon Brando for the only time on screen, on-set tension nearly derailed Brando's final film...
The 1981 animated film is far from your garden-variety Disney movie, as the story hits hard on the honest perspective of societal expectations and the...
Kurt Russell almost lost the role to Charles Bronson — here's how Escape From New York turned a modest budget into a box office and...
Dwayne Johnson returns as Maui, but the live-action Moana doesn't add anything new — it just copies the original beat-for-beat, minus the magic.
Sébastien Vaniček trades Raimi's slapstick for New French Extremity dread — and somehow makes it work.
From blowing up the White House to defeating an alien armada with a computer virus, Roland Emmerich's 1996 blockbuster remains untouched.
Kane Parsons built a viral horror universe at 16 using free software. Here's why A24 betting on him might be the smartest move in horror...