AICN spoke with The Wolfman director Johnston and managed to wrangle out a few hypotheticals out of the Jurassic Park 3 director. After saying the only way he'd get involved would be to revamp the franchise and take it completely off of the island, he explained why.

"Why would anybody go back to that island? It was hard enough to figure out the second and third reason for them to go, but it would take it off in a whole other trilogy basically, but when it gets to that level it's sort of about studios and Steven [Spielberg's] thing and who knows. I think we are at that point where we are due for another one if we are going to do it."

Off the island is very tricky, as it didn't work so swimmingly with Jurassic Park: Lost World. Personally I kind of like this idea. [Thanks, Gitemstevedave]...

Or they could just write a wholly original dinosaur story — I'm not sure which one is less likely to happen.

Also let's note Johnston's amazing background work in Raiders Of The Lost Ark, which he got one of those golden-man statues for. I'm hoping for big sweeping war scenes, Spielberg-style, and lots of gorgeous action.

Entertainment Weekly reports that Johnston will have a tight schedule as Captain America practically overlaps with the work needed to be done on The Avengers movie. The super-soldier film is set to release on May 6, 2011 and The Avengers in July of 2011.

Image from The Divided State.