TheDoctor
Sr Member
Actually that beginning from the first book could make for a great type of film. It could be a small coastal village or even a larger town in the vicinity of Isla Nublar that has had reports of numerous attacks on villagers (I doubt they'd keep the baby attacks) and people are claiming to see large lizards attacking people. The attacks are few and far between but there are lots of missing pets, livestock, etc.
They get a sample like in the book, send it away and they discover its one of the Dino's from Hammond's park. Cue Tim the PALEONTOLOGISTwho's services are requested to help identify and capture the Dino's. They could have it that entrepreneurial locals have been capturing the Dino's because they fetch a very pretty penny.
The only thing I can't see them getting is the large Dino's. One of the guys on IGN made a good point of having aquatic dinosaurs show up in the film which would be cool but I don't remember any on INGEN's list.
If you went this route, it wouldn't make sense that they're calling in Paleontologists anymore. Paleontologists made sense in the first film, but I think they had the right idea about Sarah studying the dinosaurs (as a Biologist/naturalist - not a Paleontologist). First - these are living animals, not fossilized remains. Second, as pointed out, these aren't dinosaurs - they're a new form of creature (even if 'based on dinosaurs'). Recognizing these animals as completely new and separate lifeforms would be important. If you want Tim back, then he has to be a Biologist/Naturalist (maybe even a student of Sarah... Who I imagine would be the pioneer of this new field of study).
Years ago,they had a series of comic books that followed up on what happened to the Raptors that escaped the island. They were okay (I was 14 at the time) but I remember some incredibly cheesy moments - such as Muldoon coming back (apparently the Raptor just mauled him but didn't kill him), and the motorcycle gang that saves a small town from Raptors.
