Jurassic Cast Podcast: Episode 13 - Dean Cundey

Episode 13 of Jurassic Cast Podcast is now live on Itunes, Stitcher, podbean.com/jurassiccast and on the player on the right hand menu!

On this episode, Jurassic Park's very own Director of Photography Dean Cundey drops by for a chat with Sam and Jack. The Movie legend, who's work also includes Back to the Future, Hook, The Thing, Halloween, The Fog, The Flintstones plus many more spoke about his experience making the movie and working with Spielberg and the rest of the Jurassic crew.

You can also listen to the new episode below where Sam and Jack discuss the Jurassic World merchandising as well as how AWESOME the Lost World is. But hey, that is every episode!

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On the next Episode of Jurassic Cast Podcast...Dean Cundey!

On the next episode of Jurassic Cast Podcast we are joined by the master of the camera, Jurassic Park Director of Photography Dean Cundey!

The new episode drops this week, follow us on Twitter for updates!

January Jurassic Park Collection - Steven Ray Morris

Like most of us I've been obsessed with Jurassic Park ever since I saw it in theaters over twenty years ago. As a kid I wanted everything, playing with the toys, videogames and even the trading cards. Flash forward to present day (two JP-related birthday parties in my twenties, a casiopop ode to the year 1993, and numerous Alan Grant cosplay shenanigans later), and I found myself wanting to start collecting Jurassic Park-related merch again. 

A few years prior I found unopened boxes of the Series 1 and Series 2 Jurassic Park Topps trading cards at a flea market. Once I was sitting there opening packs I knew that these were my jam. The imagery is classic Jurassic Park, but there are a lot of fun idiosyncrasies to their designs (due to having to make them before the designers saw the final film or script) that made me want to explore them in depth. 

So this is when JPTopps was born. I'm going through every card in Series 1 and 2 first and then also talking about The Lost World Topps trading cards and even the maligned, but still fun Jurassic Park III Inkworks trading cards. I recently acquired the holy grail of JP trading cards and that's an Australian-only run of Jurassic Park trading cards made by Dynamic Forces. Mostly I'm just having a lot of fun sharing my love of Jurassic Park cards with everyone, learning more about the original film's production, and getting pumped for Jurassic World. It's never been a better time being a Jurassic Park fan.

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Why Dinosaurs?

It's been a while since my last blog update here (for good reasons I can't reveal yet) but I have some time and some thoughts I figured would share along with some pictures I took.

So today I went to the Natural History Museum in London to see the world's most complete Stegosaurus skeleton. It was awesome, and definitely worth seeing if you're about in London. It has 90% of its skeleton intact with only 10% (mostly plates and tail) made of reconstructed material. It's a beautiful specimen so catch it before it lumbers off to another museum! However it got me asking this question again: Why are people so obsessed with dinosaurs? And after today I think I may have another piece to the puzzle...

Now I've asked myself this question before, back in June during my History of Dinosaur Movies series for Jurassic June I used a quote by the late Michael Crichton who also questioned people's obsession with dinosaurs. The quote was...

"All the time I was working on the book (Jurassic Park) at least, I was really trying to understand what the fascination was, and I went through all the usual theories. You know, they're interesting because they're so huge. They're interesting because they have such complicated names. They're interesting because they're gigantic, menacing things like parents which are very large from the stand point of a child, that there is some kind of Freudian association. For the child to learn the name, these complicated names could be a way to control something, or they're fascinating because they're extinct? I ran through everything I could think of and I decided that nobody knows." 

         

 - Michael Crichton

I think it is safe to say that everyone agrees that Dinosaurs had many behavioural characteristics to the animals that are alive today, including us. A Giraffe is the mammalian version of a sauropod, for one example, they're a lot bigger than us, graceful, and can be very dangerous. In fact Giraffes probably act very similar to how Brachiosaurus may have acted. So why don't we look at Giraffes in the same awe-stuck manner as when we walk into a museum and see this?...

Or do we? I visited a zoo not long back and took a ride in a jeep inside an enclosure. We got up close and personal with Ostriches, Rhinos, Giraffes and many other species; we even fed the Giraffes by hand. I felt a wave of spectacle, it was a fantastic moment feeding this large, mysterious animal; but all the time I was thinking to myself: they're like furry, hairy dinosaurs. With that conclusion I was brought back to the question, why are people (like myself) so obsessed with Dinosaurs?

After going back and forth on this subject for a while I stood in front of the Stegosaurus today and thought of a simple saying which added new light to my question. 

We always want what we can't have. 

Something tells me Crichton may have arrived at a similar theory because he wrote a book...well you know the rest.

Any thoughts?

Life Finds A Way

- Jack

Twitter: @Jack_Ewins

Jackanthonyewins.co.uk

P.s Oh yeah almost forgot to mention... NEW EPISODE COMING SOON!

Jurassic World Trailer drops. Surprise podcast drops!

Today will be marked down in Jurassic Park history as when all fans were taken by surprise as Universal dropped the much anticipated "Jurassic World" trailer...2 days early!

Originally planned to be released this Thursday/Friday (depending on your location), the trailer was released today due to unforeseen circumstances and boy are the fans loving it!

So much so that the guys at Jurassic Cast podcast went against all protocol and recorded a special episode on their reaction to the trailer. 

For those who were expecting a full episode with another special Jurassic Park guest do not fear, as the new episode will be released within the next 2 weeks. The usual "schedule matching" is currently being worked out.

So listen to what Sam & Jack have to say below, Tim unfortunately missed the recording due to it being 2am in Australia but called in just after to tell us his mind had literally been blown. Im sure we will get back into it next episode!

By the way, the clock is still ticking on the official Jurassic World site...

Episode 12: Rampage Edition is now LIVE!!!!

So after a slight delay, due to all of us here at Jurassic Cast having jam packed schedules with other projects...Episode 12 is now available to download from Itunes, Stitcher, Here or the player on the side bar.

The Episode is a special celebratory Anniversary episode featuring special guests Colton James from The Lost World, Prehistoric Park & Walking With Dinosaurs Nigel Marven, Jurassic Collect & the Crew of JP: The Incident.

If you have already listened to the episode you would have heard that Sam did a little investigating and concluded a long running rumour, below is the email that was read out from Matt Winston as part of the investigation.

-Sam

@bamsam_md 

New episode coming soon!