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9 unusual facts about Jurassic Park


Ivar Ekeland

Ekeland's exposition provided mathematical inspiration to Michael Crichton's discussion of chaos in Jurassic Park.

Through these writings, Ekeland had an influence on Jurassic Park, on both the novel and film.

Jurassic Park: Rampage Edition

As Dr. Grant you travel through fighting military type men, possibly private InGen protection, and dinosaurs until you are able to escape the island by boat.

Jurassic Park: Survival

Jurassic Park: Survival is cancelled action-adventure video game, based upon the Jurassic Park franchise, that was to be released on the PlayStation 2 in the Summer of 2002.

Jurassic Park: The Game

The team consists of Billy Yoder (voiced by Jason Marsden), Oscar Morales (voiced by Carlos Carrasco) and Danny "D-Caf" Cafaro (voiced by Ari Ruben) .

The trio manages to get the ride operational and attempts to ride it down to the base of the cliff, but as they do so, a pack of Herrerasaurus attacks them.

When that doesn't seem to work, she releases the park's captive Tylosaurus into the lagoon, despite Gerry's pleading.

Yoder's team see the smoke from Gerry's fire, but a Pteranodon attacks their helicopter, forcing them to make an emergency landing.

Trespasser

:This article is about the common law concept of a trespasser; for the computer game, see Jurassic Park: Trespasser


Allerton Garden

This picturesque settings has been used in number of films and TV shows, including South Pacific, Donovan's Reef, Jurassic Park, Starsky and Hutch and Magnum, P.I.

Barbasol

It is often the representative for a can of shaving cream, simply for its recognizable packaging, and can be seen in such movies as "Jurassic Park", "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid", and "Evan Almighty".

Cearadactylus

Cearadactylus was featured in the Jurassic Park novel by Michael Crichton, in which they attack Alan Grant, Tim Murphy and Lex Murphy when they wander into the aviary.

Cryptofiction

Examples include works by Jules Verne (The Mysterious Island), Arthur Conan Doyle (The Lost World), and Edgar Rice Burroughs (The Land That Time Forgot), and recent fiction such as Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park) and Steve Alten (the Meg series and The Loch).

Daniel Langlois

Softimage software was used to create 3-D effects in such films as Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, The Matrix, Titanic, Men in Black, Twister, Jurassic Park, The Mask and The City of Lost Children.

Dick Dean

Dean continued to build cars with Dean Jeffries until his retirement, including the character cars in Death Race 2000 1975, the remote-control Ford Explorers for Jurassic Park, the ECTO-1 Cadillac Ambulance for Ghostbusters, prop vehicles for the James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever, and the Flintstones movie.

Expanded Books

Those first titles were The Complete Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Complete Annotated Alice, and Jurassic Park.

George Poinar, Jr.

He is known for popularizing the idea of extracting DNA from insects fossilized in amber, an idea which received widespread attention when adapted by Michael Crichton for the book and movie Jurassic Park.

Gerald R. Molen

Molen has appeared in cameos in several of the films he produced, including Rain Man, Days of Thunder, and Jurassic Park.

InGen

In the novel, InGen founder John Hammond is killed in the accident and InGen files for Chapter 11 on October 5, 1989, the island is destroyed by the (fictional) Costa Rican Air force, the survivors are sworn to secrecy and by the time of The Lost World, InGen is defunct with its equipment being sold off.

Jared Emerson-Johnson

More recently, Emerson-Johnson was the composer behind the video games produced by Telltale Games, such as Bone, Sam & Max, Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People, Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures, Poker Night at the Inventory, Back to the Future: The Game, Jurassic Park: The Game, and The Walking Dead (video game).

Joseph Mazzello

Mazzello's most notable roles were as Douglas Gresham in Shadowlands and Tim Murphy in Jurassic Park, both in 1993, Dexter in the 1995 film The Cure, and "Sledgehammer" Eugene Sledge in the HBO miniseries The Pacific.

Joseph Francis Mazzello III (born September 21, 1983) is an American actor, known for his roles as Tim Murphy in Jurassic Park, Eugene Sledge in the HBO miniseries The Pacific, and Dustin Moskovitz in The Social Network.

Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden

Dozens of movies and televisions programs have had scenes filmed at the arboretum beginning in 1936, including portions of two Jurassic Park movies and Objective, Burma!.

Malia Scotch Marmo

She wrote the screenplays for Lasse Hallström's first American film, Once Around, Steven Spielberg's Hook, Daisy von Scherler Mayer's Madeline and co-adapted (with David Koepp) Michael Crichton's novel Jurassic Park into Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park.

Moviemistakes.com

Sandys initially became interested in movie errors after noting mistakes in Jurassic Park and True Lies while attending the Royal Grammar School.

Nanosaur

The native animals will attack the Nanosaur when their eggs are threatened; species encountered include Tyrannosaurus Rex, Stegosaurus, Triceratops, Dilophosaurus (who spits like in Jurassic Park), and the flying reptile Pteranodon.

Neck frill

Similar to the portrayal of the dinosaur Dilophosaurus in Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park, the frill-necked lizard can puff out these neck frills either side of its head when threatened.

Neuland

It is often used today when an “exotic” or “primitive” look is desired, such as the logos for Trader Vic's, Natural American Spirit cigarettes, and the Jurassic Park films (which use the inline variant).

Prison Sex

The video for "Prison Sex" was created with stop-motion animation techniques, and was directed by the band's guitarist Adam Jones (who had previous experience in art direction and animation, including work on the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park) and was edited by Ken Andrews.

Reissue

Other examples include films' being re-released in time for certain anniversaries; Lawrence of Arabia was given a limited re-release in 2012, fully remastered in 4K for its 50th anniversary, and Jurassic Park was re-released on April 5, 2013 in 3D and IMAX 3D for its 20th anniversary.

Tarzan the Terrible

He has tracked her to a hidden valley called Pal-ul-don, which means "Land of Men." In Pal-ul-don Tarzan finds a real Jurassic Park filled with dinosaurs, notably the savage Triceratops-like Gryfs, which unlike their prehistoric counterparts are predatory.

The Amber Time Machine

Attenborough then discusses the scientific feasibility of DNA being preserved in amber, and the science behind the 1993 hit techno-thriller Jurassic Park, in which David's brother, Richard Attenborough starred as John Hammond.

Universal Studios South Korea

The park will most likely include popular attractions from its sister parks, such as those based on King Kong, Jurassic Park, The Mummy, E.T., Shrek and Waterworld.


see also

Deepo's Undersea 3D Wondershow

The film is presented by corporate sponsor AT&T and created by Gary Goddard Entertainment, who designed the Terminator II and Jurassic Park rides at Universal Studios.

Don Lessem

A special edition of 1.3 million copies of Dino Times was distributed at the opening of the Jurassic Park film at the behest of Universal Studios.

Jurassic Park 2

The Lost World: Jurassic Park, the 1997 sequel to the 1993 film "Jurassic Park"

Jurassic Park 2: The Chaos Continues

The game predicts that faith in the Jurassic Park concept is undiminished after the first game's events, and that International Genetics Technologies intends to reestablish control.

Téa Leoni

Leoni's film work includes a lead role in Deep Impact, a big-budget disaster film about a comet menacing Earth; and Jurassic Park III, The Family Man, Bad Boys, and You Kill Me.