The plot for the fourth movie went through multiple concept ideas and writers. Executive producer Steven Spielberg is said to have come up with an idea for a fourth movie a month before the release of Jurassic Park III (2001) that was said to have taken the franchise in a completely new direction. Reports stated that the story, written by William Monahan, entailed Dr. Ian Malcolm and Dr. Alan Grant returning to battle dinosaurs that have migrated to the South American mainland, and was said to no longer be set in the jungle and include a massive underwater action sequence, with Sir Richard Attenborough returning to play John Hammond and Keira Knightley in talks to play an older Lex Murphy. The plot also included a third island populated by dinosaurs and a "conspiracy" element. Paleontologist, and technical advisor for the franchise, Jack Horner stated that velociraptors would be integral to the plot and hinted that the movie would imply that humans had evolved from dinosaurs instead of mammals. A later draft written by John Sayles dropped all returning characters other than John Hammond, and followed a new character, a mercenary who trains genetically modified dinosaurs for dangerous rescue missions. This character appears to have been the inspiration for Owen Grady in this movie. Another draft, still written by Sayles, contained dinosaur and human hybrids, and even went as far to have concept designs created for the creatures, and was rumored to be the beginning of a new trilogy for the franchise. Spielberg conceived an action sequence for the movie that involved characters being chased on motorcycles by velociraptors. After repeated revisions to the script over the next few years, all previous concepts were then dropped and a new storyline was being worked on at the beginning of 2006. Laura Dern and Sir Richard Attenborough confirmed they had been asked to return for the new movie, but further development for the script slowed during the 2008 Writers Guild of America strike and eventually came to a halt when Michael Crichton passed away on November 4th of that year. The project remained dormant until the summer of 2011, when Spielberg began meeting with writer Mark Protosevich, but a strong story wasn't conceived until the end of that year, and the script began developing in 2012. The new script based on Protosevich's work, written by Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver, took elements from previous scripts, including genetic hybrids, trained dinosaurs, an action sequence with velociraptors and motorcycles, and combine them with the new concept of a fully functioning dinosaur theme park. Colin Trevorrow was hired to direct the movie in 2013, and he continued to refine the script with co-producer Patrick Crowley. They originally had another dinosaur hybrid along side the Indominus Rex, called the "Stegoceratops", a combination of a stegosaurus and triceratops, but it was eventually removed before filming began to keep the focus on the Indominus Rex. A dispute ultimately broke out over who would get writing credit. Jaffa and Silver were credited along with Crowley and Trevorrow. The latter two disagreed with this, claiming that they had written an entirely new screenplay for the movie, but the Writers Guild denied this, and the credit still went to both writing teams, with the original story being credited to Jaffa and Silver.
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