History Trivia / JurassicPark1993

** Though Alan Grant describes the ''Velociraptor'' to use its sickle-shaped claw to disembowel prey, the raptors in the film never [[InformedAttribute actually get to do so]]. The most visible kill with [[spoiler:Muldoon]] shows the raptor using her jaws to bite his head and throat, with the legs being static as if she's pinning him down rather than slashing him. This turns out to be closer to how real ''Velociraptors'' use their sickle claws, as studies in 2005 reveal that the oversized claw was poorly designed for disemboweling and instead was more likely used for stabbing or pinning down prey.

** Shaped more by the [[Creator/StevenSpielberg director]] than the actor, but John Hammond went from being a ManipulativeBastard who wants his park open and making money no matter what problems there may be to a kindly, grandfatherly AuthorAvatar as played by Creator/RichardAttenborough.

*** This was confirmed in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPFOYwdWv3s/ 2023.]]

* DeletedScene: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20160307204828/http://www.jplegacy.org/?jpc See here]].
** There was originally going to be a scene explaining that all the dinosaurs on the island had short, painful lives, due to how they were made.

* DuelingMovies: With ''Film/{{Carnosaur}}'' and ''Raptor''. Everyone remembers them... right?!
-->'''Creator/RogerEbert:''' ''(on ''WesternAnimation/TheCritic'', to Creator/GeneSiskel)'' ''You'' liked ''Carnosaur 2''!

* MemeAcknowledgment: Phil Tippet is fully aware of the meme as a "Dinosaur Supervisor" and getting backlash for having dinosaurs escape, especially the raptors in the kitchen. He ran with it, and posted "I have one job" on his Website/{{Facebook}} account involving ''Film/JurassicWorld''.

* GenreKiller: A rare example where the film was such a smash hit and iconic that it became impossible for subsequent films to live up to it. Its own franchise notwithstanding, no one has bothered to make a serious live-action dinosaur movie afterward; and all films and video games that have happened to feature dinosaurs have, almost without exception, contained conscious nods to the franchise.

** Likewise she was also crying ''real'' TearsOfJoy when she saw the Triceratops for the first time as the actors hadn't had a chance to see the huge animatrontic before interacting with it.

* GenreKiller: A rare example where the film was such a smash hit and an iconic that it became impossible for subsequent films to live up to it. Its own franchise notwithstanding, no one has bothered to make a serious live-action dinosaur movie afterward; and all films and video games that have happened to feature dinosaurs have, almost without exception, contained conscious nods to the franchise.

* AccidentallyCorrectWriting:

* AccidentallyCorrectZoology: The velociraptors are nothing like and much larger than real-life ''Velociraptor'', and are based on ''Deinonychus'' instead (at the time of the book's writing, it was briefly hypothesized that the two were species of the same genus). However, after filming had started an even larger species than the movie raptors called ''Utahraptor'' was discovered. In the years since then, another dromaeosaur has been found matching ''Jurassic Park'''s raptors for size, ''and'' it lived in roughly the same time and place as the raptor Grant was digging up. It's called ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakotaraptor Dakotaraptor]]''. Both are still not complete matches, since ''Utahraptor'' and ''Dakotaraptor'' had feathers (the arm bones of ''Dakotaraptor'' even have quill knobs to prove it) unlike the raptors in the book and movie. Also, ''Utahraptor'' turned out to be more bizarre-looking than JP's raptors.

** Though Alan Grant describes the ''Velociraptor'' to use its sickle-shaped claw to disembowel prey, the raptors in the film never [[InformedAttribute actually get to do so]]. The most visible kill with [[spoiler:Muldoon]] shows the raptor using her jaws to bite his head and throat, with the legs being static as if she's pinning him down rather than slashing him. This turns out to be closer to how real ''Velociraptors'' use their sickle claws, as studies in the 2005 reveal that the oversized claw was poorly designed for disemboweling and instead was more likely used for stabbing or pinning down prey.

* CreatorChosenCasting:
** Creator/StevenSpielberg cast Creator/SamNeill after seeing him in ''Film/DeadCalm''.
** Creator/JosephMazzello had previously auditioned for the role of Jack in ''Film/{{Hook}}'', but was deemed too young. Spielberg promised him a role in his next film and he got the role of Tim.
** Spielberg cast Creator/WayneKnight after seeing him in ''Film/BasicInstinct''.
-->I waited for the credits to roll and wrote his name down.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** Creator/SamuelLJackson was supposed to fly to Hawaii to film Arnold's death scene, but a hurricane destroyed the set, and the scene had to be scrapped. He regrets this because he was physically chased by them and killed, and he really wanted to do it. Watch [[https://youtu.be/IqMIdAlOgYU?t=150 this]] clip explaining how his death scene would have played out.
** Creator/RichardDonner, Creator/TimBurton and Creator/JoeDante were all considered to direct when studios had a bidding war for the material (Donner would have made the film for Creator/ColumbiaPictures, Burton at Creator/WarnerBros and Dante at Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox). Creator/JamesCameron also stated the rights were bought [[http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2012/09/14/james-cameron-jurassic-park/ hours before his bid]]. In the end, Universal and Spielberg won out since Spielberg was Crichton's first choice to direct (and the studio used the upcoming ''Film/SchindlersList'', which Spielberg had been lobbying to direct, as incentive). But imagine how dark Burton's and Dante's versions would have been. (Cameron stated his version would be much more violent, but agreed that wouldn't exactly be better as "Dinosaurs are for 8-year-olds. We can all enjoy it, too, but kids get dinosaurs and they should not have been excluded for that"). Cameron's version would have seen Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger as Grant, Creator/BillPaxton as Malcolm, and Creator/CharltonHeston as Hammond.
** Creator/KevinCostner, Creator/RichardDreyfuss, Creator/HarrisonFord, Creator/MelGibson, Creator/WilliamHurt, Creator/DennisQuaid, Creator/KurtRussell and Creator/RobinWilliams were all considered for Alan Grant.
** Creator/ChristinaApplegate, Creator/JulietteBinoche, Creator/SandraBullock, Creator/JamieLeeCurtis, Creator/JoanCusack, Creator/GeenaDavis, Creator/SherilynFenn, Creator/BridgetFonda, Creator/JodieFoster, Creator/HeatherGraham, Creator/JenniferGrey, Creator/LindaHamilton, Creator/DarylHannah, Creator/NicoleKidman, Creator/SarahJessicaParker, Creator/MichellePfeiffer, Creator/AllySheedy, Creator/SigourneyWeaver, Creator/RobinWright, and Creator/ReneeZellweger, were considered for Ellie Sattler. Creator/SandraBullock, Creator/MelanieGriffith, Creator/TeriHatcher, Creator/HelenHunt, Creator/ElizabethHurley, Creator/JulietteLewis, Creator/JulianneMoore, Creator/GwynethPaltrow, Creator/UmaThurman, and Creator/DebraWinger tested for the role. (Moore got to be in the sequel).
** Creator/BruceCampbell, Creator/JimCarrey, Creator/TedDanson, Creator/JohnnyDepp, Creator/SteveGuttenberg. Creator/MichaelKeaton and Creator/MichaelJFox were considered for Ian Malcolm. (Carrey was apparently a ''very'' close second choice.)
** Creator/SeanConnery turned down the role of John Hammond. Creator/MarlonBrando, Creator/ClintEastwood, and Creator/JonPertwee were also considered.
** Creator/ChristinaRicci auditioned for Lex. Creator/ClaireDanes was also considered.
** Creator/JakeGyllenhaal was considered for Tim.
** Creator/BrianCox was interviewed for Robert Muldoon. Creator/BobHoskins, Creator/JeffreyJones, and Creator/GeoffreyRush were also considered.
** Creator/JamesWoods was considered for Donald Gennaro.
** Creator/DannyGlover was considered for Ray Arnold.
** Creator/CharlieSheen was considered for Dennis Nedry.
** The original plan was to create the dinosaurs using massive animatronics like in the Ride/{{Kongfrontation}} ride, but that was too expensive. Then Spielberg opted to primarily use Phil Tippett's "go motion" (stop motion with added motion blur) along with Stan Winston animatronics for when physically present and ILM digital effects for distant shots. Tippet had already done [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1IaR4RCZ2I tests]] when ILM made a demo showing that computer-generated dinosaurs were feasible and convincible enough, and this signed the death knell of stop motion as a special effect in live-action films. (Tippet remained as a supervisor, and his crew even developed "Dinosaur Input Devices" models which allowed to animate the digital characters like stop motion puppets)
** The raptors were initially going to be properly identified as ''Deinonychus'', as shown in concept art by Mark "Crash" [=McCreery=] and Mark Hallett, but were re-identified as ''Velociraptor'' later in production.
** Speaking on stage at a London screening, Creator/DavidKoepp said of working on the film:
--->The problem I encountered, and I still encounter today when I work with Steven, is his movies are so influential, you have a tendency to create something you think he'll like. I kind of wanted to just type for him. You have to let that go. He doesn't need acolytes, he needs collaborators. The opening scene in my first draft was at a hospital in Costa Rica where somebody's flown in on a helicopter and said it's a terrible construction accident. I wrote a really good scene where this ER doctor looks at this guy, a person's who's been ripped to shreds and says "This is not a construction accident". He said "I love your opening I can't do it though, because I feel like I already did it." I said "What? When?" He said, "Yeah, it's in ''Film/{{Jaws}}''". I said "Oh yeah, right! I love that!"' That's a peril. You've got to write stuff you think is great, then he brings his stuff to it, rather than you trying to think ahead and write what you think he would want.
*** The scene described would have been a direct adaptation of the novel's prologue; the film instead opens on the accident responsible for the hospital visit.
** The crew actually considered including feathered dinosaurs under the paleontologists' suggestions, but it was decided not to due to controversy and technological difficulties.
** Hammond was originally going to be killed off, just like his book counterpart. ''How'' he was going to be killed varied - in Crichton's first version of the script, Hammond is in the wrecked visitor center when he is startled by the twitch of a dead velociraptor, falls into the collapsed scaffolding behind him, and then gets swarmed by compies. In Crichton's last draft, Hammond pulls a HeroicSacrifice to save his grandkids from a velociraptor in the Visitor’s Center; distracting the dinosaur away from them by turning on the park’s tour introduction video and getting mauled to death offscreen, his own recorded voice ironically welcoming visitors to Jurassic Park over his dying screams. In the next version of the script (which was ''not'' written by Crichton), Hammond is escaping from the park with an egg incubator only to hear screams for help while in the control room. Opening the door, he finds a raptor outside, drops the incubator, and is attacked by the raptor, Later, Grant finds Hammond on the verge of death, who tells Grant that he was looking forward to working with him, then dies as a baby triceratops hatches from one of the incubator eggs. In other versions, Hammond just got left on the island to die, either on purpose or by accident. Then David Koepp joined the project and scrapped the whole idea of Hammond dying.

** ''Jurassic Park'' also went up against ''Film/LastActionHero'' at the box office, which Columbia Pictures pushed into theaters in an [[BoxOfficeBomb ultimately unsuccessful attempt]] to have their own Summer 1993 blockbuster.

** Likewise she was also crying ''real'' TearsOfJoy when she saw the Triceratops for the first time as the actors hadn't had a chance to see the huge animatrontic before interacting with it

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** The ''Dilophosaurus'' was depicted with a more robust skull and lips covering the teeth, long thought to be one of the main inaccuracies of the film's animal along with the venom and frill. Later in 2020, it would turn out ''Dilophosaurus'' actually did have a head shaped more like that of the film version.

** The ''Dilophosaurus'' was depicted with a more robust skull, long thought to be one of the main inaccuracies of the film's animal along with the venom and frill. Later in 2020, it would turn out ''Dilophosaurus'' actually did have a skull shaped more like that of the film version, although it still would have had the notch in the upper jaw.

** The ''Dilophosaurus'' was depicted with a more robust skull, long thought to be one of the main inaccuracies of the animal along with the venom and frill. Later 2020, it would turn out ''Dilophosaurus'' actually did have a skull shaped more like that of the film version, although it still would have had the notch in the upper jaw.

** The ''Dilophosaurus'' was depicted with a more robust skull, long thought to be one of the main inaccuracies of the animal along with the venom and frill. Later 2020, it would turn out ''Dilophosaurus'' actually did have a skull shaped more like the film version, although it still would have the notch in the upper jaw.