Board Thread:Jurassic Park News/@comment-45.73.154.146-20171026180511/@comment-7690264-20171027202907

Yes, I used animals that have next to no chance of appearing. Would yo have preferred it if I had used Ceratosaurus, or Maiasaura, or Tylosaurus? Point is, the guy who made up that Reddit post knew what was popular. Carnotaurus and Baryonyx are probably the most wanted of all Dinosaurs for the JP franchise, and people are likely to believe any source that says they're in. But without evidence we have nothing to go on.

The filmmakers have said they are using the novels as reference material. That can mean a lot of things. What it doesn't mean is that they are totally using all the animals from the novels, heck they might not use any. I mean, what is Carnotaurus when you already have a dinosaur that can camouflage? What they have taken from the novel is unknown, but to assume that it means they will definitely have things like Carnotaurus is foolish.

The day of reckoning for Ichthyovenator is not yet upon us - the second specimen is yet to be published, but for the moment Taphonomic explanations for its sail notch are seen as logical amongst those in Paleo-circles.

Finally, the JP franchise does not like featuring similar animals in one film. We have seen three Sauropod species, none of which have overlapped. Spinosaurus strait up broke Tyrannosaurus' neck so we knew which our big theropod of the evening was going to be. Fundamentally including multiple similar animals is percieved by film makers to confuse viewers (So they confuse us by giving us like 4 Pteranodon varieties over 3 films instead). Thus I doubt seeing Procompsognathus in a movie with Compsognathus. I find it unlikely that Pachycephalosaurus will be in this movie, unless a point is made of its relation to Stygimoloch to make it obvious to the audience that they are different or for that matter the same. I doubt that we will get many medium sized predators outside of the Velociraptor, Dilophosaurus and the Indoraptor. Perhaps the Concavenator, though its use it unknown and it could afterall be the Indoraptor. But if it is to distinguish itself it will have to do something cool. That it why I doubt such a large number of dinosaurs (budget limitations aside) - it just confuses the audience when you have 8 different Velociraptor-looking creatures.