James Cameron would have made Jurassic Park 'too terrifying'
James Cameron has revealed he would have made Jurassic Park R-rated and described his vision for the movie as "like Aliens with dinosaurs".
James Cameron would have made Jurassic Park like "Aliens with dinosaurs".
The Terminator director was in the running to helm the big screen adaptation of Michael Crichton's novel but lost the job to Steven Spielberg, and now Cameron has revealed was initially devastated to have missed out but he later realised he wasn't the right person to take charge of the film.
He explained to Empire magazine: "I got sent Jurassic Park — the Crichton novel. It arrived on a Friday afternoon and I was halfway through it on Saturday.
"I got to the scene in the book where the kids are in the Jeep and they get flipped upside-down and trapped and the tyrannosaurus comes up and licks the windshield because it can smell them inside.
"I got to that scene and I went: 'I’m doing this movie.' So I called up the agent and I said: 'I’m buying the book!'
"And he said: 'Too late, Steven Spielberg just got it'."
Cameron went on to admit he's now glad he didn't end up behind the camera because he would have made the film much scarier and R rated.
He added: "I realised when I saw the movie: he [Spielberg] was the right guy to make it. Not me, because I would have made it too terrifying.
"It would have been R-rated. It would have been like Aliens with dinosaurs.
"Which would have been super-cool, but he made the version that would have spoken to me as an eight-year-old, when I thought dinosaurs were the coolest thing in the world. And that’s the movie that should have been made."
In the question-and answer session with the publication, Cameron went on to talk about his 1986 sci-fi classic Aliens - the sequel to 1979's Alien which was directed by Sir Ridley Scott - and revealed he was initially unhappy with the sound effects being produced for the movie.
Cameron explained he decided to start again and ended up making a lot of the noises featured in the film in his living room.
He said: "I was dissatisfied with my sound-effects team on Aliens. They were sort of phoning it in. So I called over a couple of my friends from LA that had done sound effects with me on The Terminator.
"We cleared all the furniture out of my living room in this little house that I was renting near Pinewood Studios and we put in synthesisers.
"I blew over the top of a beer bottle to get that weird, eerie wind that’s in the colony when they show up and it’s all empty.
"And I stuck the microphone way down my throat and went [hiss] for the Alien Queen - I can’t do it as well now as I used to be able to!"
