The Jurassic Park television series canceled was picked up where the first classic movie left

These days, “Jurassic Park” is a mass media franchise with several theatrical films and even more to come. In addition to the original films and novels of Michael Crichton, there have been numerous video games and a popular animated Netflix series, “Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceousous”. What may not know is that “Camp Cretaceous” was not the first time that someone tried to convert the “Jurassic Park” into a small screen cartoon. In fact, a much earlier attempt was made in the 1990s just at the moment when the first “Jurassic Park” film reached cinemas (although it never reached a complete production).

For many years, details about this project remained secret. However, the old launch decks, the treatments of stories and conceptual art have leaked little by little, published by media such as Advanced Jurassic Post. The program, which had a “Escape from Jurassic Park” work, was ambitious to say the least, and it is not difficult to see why it never reached the screen. However, he is also a fascinating “What if?” To look back now, especially given how enormous the rest of the property has become.

Headed by the veteran of the cartoons of the 80s, Will Meugniot and the artist William Stout, among others, the program would have collected just after the end of “Jurassic Park” and presented many of the same characters (everything while expanding the story in several ways). Certain aspects of it, extracted from Crichton’s books, joined “Jurassic” subsequent films, such as the influence of the Engine Biosyn rival and the escape of many dinosaurs to the continent.

According to William Stout, who was a key member of the creative team behind “Escape from Jurassic Park” (and claims to possess an unpublished trailer for the show), Universal Cartoon Studios was aimed at creating an animated series that broke the barriers of cartoons at that time. It would have been easy to make a linking show for children aimed at selling toys and making the immense success of the original “Jurassic Park”. The franchise already had a huge marketing arm, after all, and that was basically the model for the adventure-plot to Cartoon-Pipeline of the 80s and early 90s.

On the other hand, the objective was to make a show that attracted the adult public and the children, combining the “graphic novel aspect” of the traditional animation with “a little CG animation”, according to Stout. The series would also have been issued in a groove during stellar schedule, even more consolidating its intention to capture a wide audience.

Even today, it is difficult to find a prominent animated series oriented to adult public outside the transmission. The notion of a television series during “Jurassic Park” schedule at the star schedule in the 90s would have been incredibly ambitious. At the same time, the fact that he was animated would have helped address certain problems such as refusing the stars of the original film and giving life to his high concept images. In the end, it is not difficult to see why it was not “escaping from the Jurassic Park”, but it is still a shame, given how influential it could have been.

According to the history of the history reported by Jurassic Outpost, the first season of “Escape from Jurassic Park” would have seen Biosyn, the opponent of Ingen de John Hammond who tries to steal his dinosaur DNA samples in the original film, creating his own Dino theme park. “Dinoworld” would have been very similar to Jurassic Park, and you could also make comparisons easily with Jurassic World comparisons of the second film trilogy.

Of course, this eventually leads to a dinosaur outbreak, both species of the movie “Jurassic Park” and new ones, in South America, which leads to generalized chaos. The main main characters such as Hammond, Ellie Sattler, Ian Malcolm and Alan Grant would also have appeared (although given their stellar power of their original actors, they would probably have recast with a less expensive voice talent).

Will Meugniot, whom Universal brought to develop the series, cut his teeth in the cartoons of the 80s such as “The Real Ghostbusters”, “Gi Joe” and “Captain Planet”, so he contributed a lot of experience to the project. However, that and a convincing concept were not enough to boost the show. While “Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous” became a great success decades later, it is a fairly standard animated children’s show, unlike the expansive series of stellar schedule that “escape from the Jurassic Park” was destined to be.