Spielberg to Produce, Not Direct ‘Jurassic Park 4’

A fourth film for the blockbuster Jurassic Park franchise has been in the works for some time but Spielberg will not be at the helm of the film.

In a recent interview with Collider Spielberg said, “I don’t want to talk about Jurassic Park 4 yet – it’s too early – but I can tell you that I’m not directing it. I’m producing it though.

There is no word whether the film will be a sequel to Jurassic Park 3 or a 3D remake of the original story to celebrate the franchise’s 20th anniversary. “I can’t say. I will when the time is right, but for now I can’t talk about it,” said Spielberg.

Kathleen Kennedy, Spielberg’s producing partner, expressed her concerns over producing a fourth film. “A great script is what it’s gonna take to get a fourth Jurassic Park. We have a very high bar for ourselves because we’re just like the audience, we don’t wanna make the movie if there’s not a reason to make the movie.”

Kennedy continued, “So we’ve kinda created the dilemma ourselves because it was never intended to be a franchise, so there’s an argument to be made – ‘Why are you doing a fourth Jurassic Park?’ So we’ve gotta find a good reason for why we’re doing a fourth Jurassic Park and we’re in the midst of working on that right now.”

The 20th Anniversary for the Jurassic Park franchise will be June 13, 2013.