These days, “Jurassic Park” is a massive media franchise With several theatrical films and even more to come. In addition to Michael Crichton’s films and original novels, there have been many video games and a popular Netflix animation series, “Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous”. What you may not know is that “Camp Cretaceous” was not the first time that someone has tried to transform “Jurassic Park” into a small cartoon. In fact, a much more previous attempt was made in the 1990s roughly when the first film of “Jurassic Park” was launched in theaters (although it has never done full production).

For many years, the details of this project have been kept secret. However, the old pitch decks, history treatments and conceptual art have mobilized, published by points of sale as Jurassic outpost. The show, which had a working title “Escape from Jurassic Park”, was ambitious to say the least, and it is not difficult to see why he never reached the screen. However, it’s also a fascinating “What if?” To go back now, especially since the rest of the property has become enormous.

Mergé by the veteran of comics from the 80s, Will Meogniot and the artist William Stout, among others, the show would have taken up after the end of “Jurassic Park” and presented many of the same characters (while expanding the story in various ways). Some aspects of the latter, drawn from Crichton books, have been incorporated into Later “Jurassic” filmsLike the influence of Engen Rival Biosyn and the escape of many dinosaurs to the continent.

According to William Stout, who was a key member of the creative team behind “Escape from Jurassic Park” (and claims to have an unprecedented trailer for the show), Universal Cartoon Studios aimed to create an animated series that broke the barriers of cartoons at the time. It would have been easy to make a link show for children intended to sell toys and enjoy the immense success of the original “Jurassic Park”. The franchise already had a huge arm of merchandising, after all, and it was essentially the model of the adventure-movie-to-Carton film in the 80s and the early 90s.

Instead, the objective was to make a show that called on the adult public as well as children, mixing the “graphic novel look” of traditional animation with “a little CG animation”, according to Stout. The series would also have been broadcast in a prime niche, more cement of its intention to capture a large audience.

Even today, it is difficult to find prominent animated series intended for an adult audience outside the streaming. The notion of television series in prime time, “Jurassic Park” in the 90s would have been incredibly ambitious. At the same time, the fact that he was animated would have helped to solve certain problems as redesigns the stars of the original film and give life to his visuals at high concept. In the end, it is not difficult to see why “escape from Jurassic Park” has not been manufactured, but it is always a shame, since it could have been influential.

According to the treatment of the story reported by Jurassic Outpost, the first season of “Escape from Jurassic Park” would have seen Biosyn, the Engen of John Hammond rival who tries to steal his DNOSA DNA samples in the original film, creating his own Dino theme park. “Dinoworld” would have been very similar to Jurassic Park, and you could also easily make comparisons with Jurassic World from the second trilogy of the film.

Of course, this finally leads to an epidemic of dinosaurs – the two species of the film “Jurassic Park” and news – in South America, leading to generalized chaos. Major characters like Hammond, Ellie Sattler, Ian Malcolm and Alan Grant would also have appeared (although given their star power of their original actors, they would probably have been rebuilt with cheaper voice talents).

Will Meugniot, which Universal led to develop the series, cut his teeth on major caricatures of the 80s like “The Real Ghostbusters”, “Gi Joe” and “Captain Planet”, so he gave a lot of experience to the project. This and a convincing concept were not enough to push the spectacle. While “Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous” has become a huge success Decades later, it is a fairly standard animated children’s show, as opposed to the large series in prime time that “Escape from Jurassic Park” was supposed to be.