Spielberg's dinosaurs not extinct just yet........

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LOS ANGELES — Steven Spielberg has dinosaurs back on the brain lately.

In addition to the fall launch of his executive-produced television series "Terra Nova" on Fox, Spielberg has been meeting with screenwriter Mark Protosevich to kick around ideas for a reboot of the "Jurassic Park" franchise.

Several years ago, the director worked with Protosevich on a potential remake of Chan-wook Park's "Oldboy," which would have starred Will Smith. That film ran into rights problems and didn't come to fruition, but Spielberg, who directed the first two Jurassic Park films and was an executive producer on the third, has since met twice with Protosevich to fashion a story for a potential fourth film.

Both Universal, which released the trilogy, and Spielberg's camp stress that no one has been engaged to write a script and that the discussions have been purely exploratory. But the idea is kind of a no-brainer. ............(more)

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