David Koepp — screenwriter of the original 'Jurassic Park' — returns decades later with a new film that strives to return the franchise to its scary thrill-ride roots, and to be less, well, goofy: "I wanted to make dinosaurs special again.

Jurassic World Rebirth hits theaters this week, once again throwing us back into the world of John Hammond’s magnificent Jurassic (or more accurately, often Cretaceous) recreations. We see new dinosaur hybrids,

I don’t think I’d be surprising anyone who knows me by saying that I’m a Jurassic franchise superfan. I’m even someone who enthusiastically enjoyed both of the previous sequels to Jurassic World. But I can agree with everyone that 1993’s Jurassic Park is the high bar of the series,