Jurassic Park III dinosaur-bird connection, said the feathers quills added to the "Velociraptor" for "Jurassic Park III" "looked like a roadrunner's toupee", but conceded that feathers are difficult subjects for computer animation and speculated that "Jurassic Park IV"'s raptors would have more realistic with plumage. In 2002, Crichton said he had not watched the film. A teaser trailer was released online in September 2000. Universal avoided excessive early marketing to prevent a possible backlash; the studio believed awareness of the film was already sufficient. Marketing began in April 2001, three months before the film's release. The first footage from the film was aired
Jurassic Park (film) the gross. Warner Bros. and Tim Burton, Columbia Pictures and Richard Donner, and 20th Century Fox and Joe Dante bid for the rights, but Universal Studios eventually acquired them in May 1990 for Spielberg. After completing "Hook", Spielberg wanted to film "Schindler's List". Sid Sheinberg, president of Music Corporation of America (then Universal Pictures' parent company) gave the green light to "Schindler's List" on the condition Spielberg make "Jurassic Park" first. He said later by choosing a creature-driven thriller, "I was really just trying to make a good sequel to "Jaws", on land." To create the dinosaurs, Spielberg thought of