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The movie adaptation of Jurassic Park is based on the novel written by Michael Crichton, was directed by Steven Spielberg and hit theaters in 1993. Crichton, along with David Koepp, received screenplay credit. The cast includes Sam Neill as Dr. Alan Grant, Laura Dern as Dr. Ellie Sattler, Jeff Goldblum as Dr. Ian Malcolm, Richard Attenborough as John Hammond, and a pre-Pulp Fiction Samuel L. Jackson, as Ray Arnold.
The underlying what-if question of the movie is "What if scientists could extract dinosaur DNA from the blood contained in mosquitoes fossilized in amber thousands of years ago?" And if they did, to what use would they put this miraculous resuscitation of vanished life forms?
The best use of genetically reconstructed dinosaurs would, of course, be in entertainment: A theme park that houses cuddly triceratops, clever velociraptors, and magnificent tyrannosaurus rexes.
Goldblum, as chaos theory mathematician Dr. Ian Malcolm, does a superb job providing comic relief in a move rife with chase scenes, velociraptor hide-and-go-seek games, and dinosaurs dining on minor characters. Two young actors, Joseph Mazzello and Ariana Richards, assist greatly in providing light moments and adding the extra fillip of child-in-jeopardy terror.
The movie combined computer-generated imagery with conventional mechanical effects to create vividly lifelike dinosaurs. Made on an estimated budget of 62 million dollars, the movie went on to earn almost $920 million worldwide. The film received three Academy Awards, for Best Sound, Best Sound Effects Editing, and Best Visual Effects. Sequels to date include The Lost World: Jurassic Park in 1997, and Jurassic Park III in 2001.
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