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Jurassic Park 4: New Concept Art From Lost Film

Artist Carlos Huante recently shared concept art from a much earlier take on Jurassic Park 4...

If you Frankensteined the DNA of the Hulk, Wolfman and a velociraptor in a petri dish, you’d get Raptorman. He was due to appear in a Jurassic Park film, but it ultimately wasn't meant to be.

Raptorman was part of a screenplay envisioned by John Sayles and William Monahan when they were penning an earlier take on Jurassic Park 4, featuring genetically enhanced soldier-o-saurus reptiles created by a corporation to be mercenaries that are supposed to wrangle the rogue dinos trampling North America.

The military dinos died out after studio execs decided this one big leap for dinosaur-kind was just too bizarre. It was this script that Jurassic World outlived to become the official fourth movie in the Jurassic Park franchise. The closest that ever got to the Sayles-Monahan concept was Dr. Henry Wu’s 'designer' T-Rex-Velociraptor-Carnotaurus-Gigantosaurus-Majungasurus-Rugops-cuttlefish-tree frog-pit viper hybrid, Indominus Rex.

Indominus Rex didn’t foreshadow Sayles and Monahan’s vision ever hatching on the big screen. Neither did dinosaur security cop Vic Hoskins’ vague Jurassic World reference to carnivorous reptilian military recruits (no wonder he ended up being shredded into a raptor’s dinner). Raptorman’s artist, Carlos Huante, recently unearthed a fossil of the concept art which he shared on Instagram. He captioned it “Here’s an image from an approximately 14-year-old, failed version of Jp4.”

Snarling like a werewolf and armed not to the teeth, but with teeth, Raptorman is a monstrous DNA experiment who looks as if he came straight from a reptilian bodybuilding competition, with an imposing Hulk-like presence and sinewy limbs that may have been borrowed from Groot, made even more amazing by the robotic gun he has for a left arm.

ILM Says Recent 'Jurassic Park 4' Concept Art Is Not Official

Images from an abandoned version of 'Jurassic Park 4,' featuring mutants with a mix of dinosaur, human, and dog DNA, have appeared online - so we followed up with ILM.

Those who have been following progress (or lack thereof) on Jurassic Park 4 over the past decade may recall a time when mind-baffling rumors were circulating that the fourth installment was going to feature genetically-altered dinosaurs trained to use weapons. Screen Rant's own Rob Keyes jokingly (or was he?) requested a Dino-Riders movie while writing about the project last year; however, that's not all that far off from the shape JP4 was taking some eight years ago.

William Monahan (The Departed) and John Sayles (Lone Star) penned that version of the script, with Carlos Huante (Prometheus) serving as the conceptual artist. We've contacted ILM and been informed that the JP4 conceptual artwork which leaked online earlier this week is not from the official production. Nonetheless, these images do offer some interesting food-for-thought on what could've been the next step in evolution (or something like that) for the Jurassic Park franchise.

Ain't It Cool News got ahold of Monahan and Sayles' JP4 script draft - which was tentatively titled Dinosaurs with Guns - back in 2007 (read their review here). The story revolved around a new bioengineering company breeding hybrids that combine dinosaur, human, and dog DNA, to produce a form of 'biological weaponry' that could be trained for combat. At first, it sounds like someone wrote a script based on the "Tyrannosaurs in F-14s!" panel from Calvin and Hobbes. However, in action, the script is described as more intelligent (which makes sense, given the writers involved), like a modern blockbuster treatment of H.G. Wells' The Island of Dr. Moreau.

We get that same Wellian sci-fi vibe from the unofficial concept design artwork, suggesting the 'lab experiments' in the Dinosaurs with Guns version of JP4 might have looked something like this:

A number of sites reported that the artwork could have been official pre-production concept artwork - put together by the visual effects team at ILM (because the artwork was stamped with Industrial Light and Magic watermarks). However, before sharing the artwork, we wanted to dig a little deeper - so we followed-up with ILM.

According to the ILM representative who responded to our inquiry:

Not sure where this stuff came from but it's not from a production we've worked on. Looks like someone's personal work – ILM doesn't put © lines on our work like in those images – we don't own the work – the clients do.

As a result, while the images could still be legitimate pre-production concept art - the designs never went nearly as far into the pipeline as many people might have been speculating.

Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver are working on the current JP4 script draft (from a story developed by Steven Spielberg and Mark Protosevich), but they are not expected to lift any elements directly from Monahan and Sayles' screenplay. The duo could very well use further genetic experimentation with dinosaurs as a plot point in their draft, but in a more scientific (re: realistic) manner that recalls their approach on Rise of the Planet of the Apes.

Jurassic Park III introduced the concept of 'talking dinosaurs', but this abandoned version of JP4 would've taken the sci-fi aspects in a much more bizarre direction. It could have been a brilliant re-invention of the franchise, but it might've as easily destroyed what little credibility this series has left (add it to the "Abandoned Sci-Fi Vision" File, with Jon Spaihts' original script for Prometheus).

Freaky early Jurassic Park 4 character designs

Very briefly, it saw an evil corporation (aren't they all?) create genetically engineered dinosaur mercenaries with the DNA samples nicked by Denis Nedry in the first film. They gave the dinos human DNA so they could use guns and solve problems. One of them was called Achilles.

Steven Spielberg came up with the story, which he apparently called "the mother of all ideas", but it was just too weird to ever get made. However, recently surfaced images of the dino-mercenaries (assumign they're genuine) show us how this bizarre sequel might have looked.

According to the reddit post, they're a mixture of original concept art by Carlos Huante and renders created by ILM artist Andrew Cawrse.

The designs are odd. They don't even look like dinosaurs to us, with several sites pointing out their similarity to The Lizard from 'The Amazing Spider-Man'.

Thankfully these mutant monstrosities never shuffled onto cinema screens, but a new 'Jurassic Park' adventure could still be in the works. This summer it was announced that 'Rise Of The Planet of the Apes' duo Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver were writing a script for a totally different 'Jurassic Park' sequel, with the film only "two years away", according to producer Frank Marshall.