So apparently Sam Neil is wrong. (I didn't quite buy his arguments anyway: I don't think Crichton is necessary to the franchise, and while Stan Winston is in the pantheon of greatest special effects geniuses ever, it's not like we're lacking for people perfectly capable of creating CG dinosaurs.)

Here's the point:

Steven Spielberg has been meeting with writer Mark Protosevich to go over ideas for the fourth installment in the dinosaur franchise based on the novel by Michael Crichton.

Jurassic Park 4, nerds! That's what I'm talkin' 'bout!

Yes, this is just exploratory, there are no promises yet. And yes, yes, it will probably be worse than the the last one. I don't care!!!! DINOSAURS!!!!!! *crosses fingers*

In the mean time we have Spielberg's dinosaur-time-travel show Terra Nova this fall.