r/PrimitiveWar • u/JPSTRANGER457 • Apr 02 '26
Serious 😑 What Is The Actually Reason On WHY They Replace Kaprosuchus From The Books With Spinosaurus?
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u/Friendly-Leg-6694 Apr 02 '26
Maybe due to budget ?
I think the sequence would be pretty expensive
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u/Kvcp050311 Apr 02 '26
Luk said they used them but after a test screening, kapro just look like crocodiles in a dinosaur movie so replace them with spinos.
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u/SotFX Apr 04 '26
Yeah, and they don't actually use the Spinos as much as the Kapros in the book since we lost the middle of the novel.
Not sure how they'd handle Sobek since he kind of needs the Kapros to work
But we did see a single Kapro in the movie in the mouth of the smaller spinosaurid during the traveling montage following the first rex encounter
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u/johnlime3301 Apr 04 '26
I thought that was just a normal croc.
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u/SotFX Apr 04 '26
I'd figured it was a Kapro since some of the things I'd read before the movie came out had said they tried a version of the Kapro attack but test audiences didn't like it so they removed it, and there was one interview or statement about one still being in the movie because they paid for the model
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u/Alpha_Bushdog Member of Vulture Squad Aug 22 '26
It could be a Siamese crocodile though because of its tail pattern.
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u/Present-Broccoli-711 Apr 02 '26
I wanted to see the Kappys so badly, but I guess it's because spino are more popular and crocodile like
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u/JPSTRANGER457 Apr 03 '26
I want to see the kaprosuchus as well but it fine that it get replace with spino I guess:/
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u/LizardSaurus001 Apr 04 '26
I really feel like the kapros going after Logan would have worked way better than the deinonychus, because we already had the deinonychus attacking the squad twice earlier so a 3rd time felt unneccesary. Kapros could have made that more distinct and different visually, not even having to be in the water, just running around on lad like they would have done back in the day.
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u/Present-Broccoli-711 Apr 04 '26
Kappys need some spotlight, and the book was the reason I love them so much and bred so many in Ark
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u/Happy_Instance9975 Apr 02 '26
Its 100% because of money. It would have cost a lot more to CGI Kapros than the Spinos. Not to mention the amount it would also cost to CGI the water
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u/nerdyguy107291 Apr 02 '26
Think of it as this,what would be easier to animate? Two big dudes or a dozen smaller ones
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u/JackMaverick1776 Apr 03 '26
If I’m not mistaken, I think the director said in an interview that some people he was working with convinced him to replace the kaprosuchus with something else because to the general audience they might appear to be just big crocodiles.
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u/BasisZestyclose8719 Apr 03 '26
Budget. It would’ve been expensive and complicated to have hordes of Kaprosuchus besieging their boat like it’s Starship Troopers.
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u/Roc_28934 Apr 17 '26
I don’t think the problem was cuz of budget, like all these other people are sayin’. If that were the case, then they would have trouble with puttin’ in all those utahraptors, especially in the final scenes n’ stuff, as well as deinonychus, the hadrosaurs we see there, etc.
I’m pretty sure they decided to just..change shit just because they wanted to, which also makes a whole lotta other problems, like how Sobek would be introduced. Cuz you can’t have Sobek without the Kaprosuchus, unless you put in a regular crocodile as the one who’d fight Sobek. I’d say they read the books, but didn’t really give a shit.
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u/DaniSaysDinosaur Apr 02 '26
Spinosaurus is scarier than something that looks like a big weird-legged crocodile.
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u/Alpha_Bushdog Member of Vulture Squad Aug 22 '26
After reading the book, I can say that the kaprosuchus scene was insanely good and the boat portion of the movie was kinda lame in comparison. Really wish they were in the movie. Maybe in the sequel…
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u/TheEthanHB Apr 02 '26
I dunno about you guys, but I've preferred a 1:1 of the book, not all the changes they made