By Zanub Saeed
The "Jurassic Park" film franchise is officially ready to expand, as screenwriters have been chosen to write the long-awaited fourth installment of the series.
Universal Studios' blockbuster franchise will be written by screenwriters Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver, Deadline.com reported on Wednesday. The two wrote the 2011 science-fiction feature "Rise of the Planet of the Apes," starring James Franco and Andy Serkis.
The movie will be produced by Steven Spielberg, who directed the previous installments, as well as Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall, Deadline noted, though it was confirmed that Spielberg will not direct the fourth movie.
The first installment of the movie, based off the best-selling novel by Michael Crichton, and released nearly 20 years ago, will be re-released for its 20th anniversary on July 19, 2013.
"A great script is what it's gonna take to get a fourth Jurassic Park," Kennedy told Total Film magazine at the end of last year. "We have a very high bar for ourselves because we're just like the audience, we don't want to make the movie if there's not a reason to make the movie."
"So we've kind of created the dilemma ourselves because it was never intended to be a franchise, so there's an argument to be made, 'Why are you doing a fourth Jurassic Park?'" Kennedy continued. "So we've got to find a good reason for why we're doing a fourth Jurassic Park and we're in the midst of working on that right now."
There is no current release date set for the fourth installment of the series, and no word yet on if any of the previous stars of the films, including Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Lord Richard Attenborough, or Jeff Goldblum, would return to the park once again.
