The Untold Truth About the Original Jurassic Park Trilogy
More than 25 years after the debut of the original film, the Jurassic Park franchise continues to thrill fans worldwide. Here's a look back at the original trilogy and a wealth of behind-the-scenes information that even hardcore fans don't know about the making of these blockbuster movies. The trail of inspiration for Jurassic Park leads back to Spielberg's childhood love of dinosaurs. He told Entertainment Weekly, "I was more interested in the dinosaurs in King Kong than King Kong himself. I thought the T. rex was one of the most impressive dinosaurs in fossil history!" In the late 1980s, Spielberg met author and screenwriter Michael Crichton, a Harvard Medical School graduate whose novels, including Andromeda, The End of the Line, and Expedition Congo, often dealt with scientific issues. As the two were developing a screenplay based on Crichton's time as a resident physician—a project that would later become the television series ER—Crichton mentioned another idea of his: a novel about dinosaurs brought to life through discovered DNA samples. Considering that there is a real gene-editing technology called CRISPR, which was unveiled later in 2012, the concept Crichton was talking about was certainly ahead of its time. The idea immediately piqued Spielberg's interest, and even before Crichton had finished the novel, Universal Studios paid the author $2 million for the film rights and an initial draft of the screenplay. Screenwriter David Koepp, whose credits include Death Becomes Her, Mission: Impossible, and Spider-Man, who later joined the project, brought the science to life and, together with Spielberg, developed the animated Mr. DNA to explain how the fictional theme park had bred dinosaurs in a laboratory. . 2 ... The Beginning of an Idea | 0:00 Cast of the Film | 1:41 Fake Dinosaurs, Real Hurricane | 2:58 Lifelike Effects | 4:10 Palpable Enthusiasm | 5:51 Many Homages | 7:20 A Dark Mood | 8:35 Not Quite a Hit | 9:29 Back to the Jungle | 10:10 A Bumpy Ride | 11:41 New Creatures Enter the Stage | 13:05 Here's the full article (in English): https://www.looper.com/231353/inside-...
