Jurassic Park screenwriter David Koepp returning for “complete reboot” of the series

But hey, everyone will always like seeing dinosaur movies, and each entry in the World trilogy made over $1 billion, so why the hell not make more? Universal’s new Jurassic movie will be written by David Koepp, who wrote the screenplay for the first two Jurassic Park movies, and Deadline says that nobody from the previous movies—including Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard from the new ones and Jeff Goldblum, Sam Neill, and Laura Dern from the old ones—is “expected to return.”

That all seems good, since the World movies were so desperately beholden to the Park movies, and there’s no need to make the concept of a dinosaur theme park so limited by keeping it closely tied to what came before. These ideas need to be allowed to run free, chomping lawyers, stalking Robert Muldoon, and spitting on Wayne Knight like they would in the wild.

As for Koepp, he’s had what could be pretty safely described as an interesting career. He’s credited, either solo or with other writers, on Mission: Impossible, David Fincher’s Panic Room, the first Spider-Man movie, Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull, Premium Rush, the Da Vinci Code sequels, and Steven Soderbergh’s Presence (the movie that freaked out Sundance this week). Also, he directed (but did not write) Johnny Depp’s Mortdecai, so he’s seen some wild shit. Imagine a dinosaur with a funny little mustache? Now there’s the energy the Jurassic series has been missing.