10 Dream Directors For Hollywood's Biggest Franchises

Guillermo Del Toro has a penchant for turning creatures that could simply be described on the page as 'monsters' into fully-formed and sympathetic characters, and is also a vocal proponent of using practical effects whenever possible, even if CGI is the easy option. On that basis alone, who wouldn't want to see what a Jurassic Park movie from the Mexican director would look like?

Jurassic World may have been a decent enough popcorn movie, but it leans far too heavily on spectacle and uses its paper-thin characters and flimsy plot as nothing more than an excuse to string the action sequences together. The production's reluctance to use the practical effects that were key in the franchise's previous installments also make the action seem more artificial than ever, with the climactic showdown in particular more like a video game cut-scene than a genuinely exciting piece of cinema.

While Pacific Rim may be guilty of many of the same things, it still managed to live up to the promise of its ridiculous premise and then some. A Del Toro-directed Jurassic Park would no doubt make use of more tangible effects and take the franchise down a darker, more morally-dubious path.

Not only that, but given the anti-authoritarian stance most of his movies have taken the genetically-engineered and held-in-captivity dinosaurs would likely be the sympathetic heroes of the piece, with the humans that created them entirely for exploitation and profit painted as the villains.