Because why not.
2015 was the year of long-awaited sequels, with Mad Max: Fury Road, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and Jurassic World, among others. Of these movies, the one with the most interesting and extensive preproduction was Jurassic World, as the film was in development hell since the release of Jurassic Park 3 back in 2001.
The potential “Jurassic Park 4” had undergone numerous changes in the 14 years it would take to finally hit the big screen. Most notably, is an early draft of the film’s script that included nightmare-inducing dinosaur-human hybrids. Proceed at your own discretion.
Above is a gallery of concept art and models of human-dinosaur hybrids featured in John Sayles’ early script of the film that leaked a few years back. In this version of the film’s story, a mercenary character that trains dinosaurs discovers that InGen has been genetically modifying dinosaur DNA with humans, making them intelligent, problem-solving monsters capable of firing weapons. I’m not making this up; you can read a review of this script here.
While this version of the film obviously didn’t happen, remnants of this script’s ideas made it into Jurassic World.
Chris Pratt’s Velociraptor training character Owen Grady isn’t too far off from the proposed protagonist of the early script, and Dr. Henry Wu, the geneticist who was also in the first film, survives, hinting at the possibility of more genetically modified beasts a la the Indominus rex.
Could we actually see these humanoid dinos in an upcoming sequel? If they look as repulsive and ridiculous as they do in this concept art, I kind of hope we will.
Jurassic World 2 hits theaters on June 22, 2018.
