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It's the
groundbreaking film

that brought dinosaurs to life.

It was a T-Rex in the same
frame as a human being.

I cannot understate how
mindblowing that was for 1993.

No movie had ever been made
like this before.

"Jurassic Park"
would thrill audiences

and smash box office records.

They spent $65 million
on the marketing campaign.

That was more than the budget
of the film itself.

The film's success
all depended on one thing,

how to make these
prehistoric creatures

convincing and believable.

Spielberg knew this movie
would live and die

based on the dinosaurs.

When we don't believe the
veracity of what's on screen,

a blockbuster falls apart.

Steven Spielberg was talking
to Michael Crichton and

Michael Crichton says, Steven,
how will you do the dinosaurs?

Its special effects changed

how Hollywood made movies.

"Jurassic Park" did stuff
we'd never seen before

and it changed it
technologically.

CGI barely existed.

The T-Rex's roar is actually a
baby elephant.

This is where the genius of
Spielberg comes into play.

Live-action puppets
and CGI mixed together

and it still works.

And when it all
came together on screen,

it was film making
at its finest.

The dinosaurs are actually
only in this movie,

which is over two hours long
for 14 minutes.

"Jurassic Park" taps into our
thrill of seeing things

that we can only imagine.

We dig into how
this groundbreaking film came

together in an unbelievable
combination of science fact

and science fiction.

"Jurassic Park" changed the
modern blockbuster,

but also changed what these
stories could be about.

Science is cool.
Action movies can be unexpected.

An adventure 65 million years
in the making.

♪

November 2020,
filming wraps on one of the most

anticipated films
in the 21st century,

one millions of years
in the making.

Fans are gonna lose
their minds.

Another "Jurassic Park"
is coming.

Everyone will go see it.
That's all there is to it.

It's gonna be the culmination
of all of the greatest parts

of "Jurassic" that you loved
from the very first

up to the most recent one.

And uh, it's going to truly
deliver on the promise.

It's going to blow you away.

"Jurassic World Dominion"

is the 6th installment in the
action-adventure series.

And reportedly features seven
new dinosaur species

previously unseen
in the franchise.

Just what will they come up
with this time?

Fans are gonna flock to this
new movie.

With Colin Trevorrow directing
and Steven Spielberg involved

as well, this film is gonna be
another monster hit.

But more importantly
the $165 million film unites

"Jurassic" legacy actor,
Sam Neill, Laura Dern

and Jeff Goldblum
with "Jurassic World" stars,

Chris Pratt and
Bryce Dallas Howard.

That was such a monumental
moment when they got announced

for this project.

You have Jeff Goldblum
reprising his role

as Dr. Ian Malcolm.

You have Laura Dern reprising
her role as Dr. Ellie Satler.

And you have Sam Neill reprising
his role as Dr. Alan Grant.

Having the big three that we
haven't seen since

"Jurassic Park", the original
in 1993 is just incredible,

amazing, spectacular.
Just we can't wait.

To see the culmination of the
arcs that they set up

back in "Jurassic Park"
with the family elements

and all these
really intricate things

that they've been layering in
throughout the entire saga.

I'm gonna be sad when it all
comes to a close.

It is the latest
film in a franchise

that has captivated audiences
for nearly three decades.

You really can't underestimate
the power and the pull that

the "Jurassic Park" franchise
has on pop culture today.

When the original
"Jurassic Park" was released

it earned nearly $1 billion

and became the highest grossing
film of 1993.

This movie grossed
$914 million

in the initial release,
which is a huge number now.

So imagine how huge
that number was then.

It really is the first major
blockbuster of this type,

isn't it?

Well, given that I think this
film is going to be one of the

biggest of all time, I guess you
know, that's fair to say.

Dinosaurs have always
fascinated people.

And to suddenly see a movie
where they're walking around

was at that time,
it was just mindblowing

because CGI was in its infancy.

You have George Lucas,
Steven Spielberg.

You have this incredible
technology and CGI.

You have the dinosaurs.

When I saw the first movie, it
was such a huge feat in cinema.

And it was, it was really,
there was like a before and

after point with that film,
what Steven Spielberg did.

These things really did exist
and they were real-life

monsters, but it's been
65 million years and so

you know, there's, it's exciting
and yeah, as a kid I loved it.

I remember the first time
I saw "Jurassic Park"

being blown away by the scale.

The close-ups of the eye,
the suspense.

They also felt
just believable enough

that it hooked you in
that like, oh my gosh,

what if this did happen?

That movie made science cool.

It wasn't a James Bond movie.
It wasn't a John McClane movie.

It was Sam Neill and Laura Dern,
and Jeff Goldblum

as action stars.

And it's based
on real science.

This was written
by Michael Crichton

who is a real doctor, someone
who went to medical school.

Michael Crichton is
a prolific author

behind such books as
"The Andromeda Strain"

and "Sphere",

as well as the creative force
behind "ER".

Michael Crichton was a
filmmaker as well as a novelist.

He was, if you will,
a failed doctor.

He had gone to medical school,
had written a memoir about that,

which Steven Spielberg had
purchased and became "ER",

so there was a
relationship there.

Crichton had been
toying with one particular idea

for a decade when in 1990,

he publishes his novel,
"Jurassic Park".

I interviewed
Michael Crichton.

It was a concept he'd had
for a long time.

The basic gist of it was,
hey, let's use genetics,

DNA extracted from mosquitoes
to recreate dinosaurs.

What people want to see is
the thing

you never saw in real life,
which is humans, dinosaurs

coexisting at the same time.

How is he gonna
have them together?

Ah, theme park.

"Jurassic Park" is
about playing God.

It's about bringing something
back to life that you shouldn't

necessarily bring back to life.

It follows that long lineage
of films that just because

you can do something,
doesn't mean you should do it.

So Steven Spielberg and
Michael Crichton are friends.

And they're talking about
a project that eventually

becomes "ER", but during the
process Michael Crichton says,

yeah, I've got an idea about how
to bring dinosaurs back to life

through a DNA strain.

Steven Spielberg
had read the book.

He's always liked dinosaurs
and he told Michael Crichton

he'd like to do it.

And Spielberg goes,
ah, ding, ding, ding.

And then his eyes lit up
and dollar signs

started just flying by.

Steven Spielberg was the right
fit because Spielberg has always

credited monster movies like
"King Kong", "Godzilla",

things like that for inspiring
him as a filmmaker.

This was the perfect kinda story
for him to tell.

Steven Spielberg
loved smart heroes.

He did that in a lot of his
movies, his dramas

and his action movies.

I mean, Indiana Jones
is a smart hero.

He's not always the strongest
one in the room,

but he's usually the smartest
one in the room.

It's always what he's done.

And he really brought
that energy.

And he partnered it
with Michael Crichton

who was a very smart,
brilliant writer.

Spielberg knows the
success of the film

depends on one thing,

how to bring dinosaurs
back to life on-screen.

The pre-production for
"Jurassic Park" actually lasted

over two years.
It was 25 months of work.

It was the dawn
of computer-generated imagery,

but there were also
older techniques

that were still being employed.

We'll get somebody who can do
live-action dinosaurs and

we'll also get somebody that
can do stop-motion dinosaurs.

And we'll combine those two.
And then maybe add some CGI.

And that was the orginal plan
with "Jurassic Park".

Steven Spielberg had a very
unfortunate experience

with "Jaws",

with Bruce the shark,
which never worked.

He's been quoted as saying,
you know that shark they have

in that tank for
Universal Tours?

That works much better
than the one we ever had.

It was just terrible.

The saltwater was shortening
out things.

It didn't have a powerful
enough engine.

They had to compromise things.

The great thing about that movie
is you don't see the shark

that much, so it's scary.

That was almost out of necessity
because they just didn't have

the shark that worked.

So now he's going into a movie
where there're dinosaurs,

but it's 10 years later.

It's more than 10 years later
and this stuff works better.

Steven Spielberg wanted
this movie so bad, right?

He basically begged
Michael Crichton for it.

It took a lot of convincing
because a movie of this scope

seems unfathomable.

How do you make this?
How do you make this real?

Spielberg turns
to two Hollywood legends,

special makeup effects creator,
Stan Winston and

visual effects innovator,
Phil Tippett.

Stan Winston was gonna make the
live things full scale,

however he was going to
make them move.

Phil Tippett was going to do
what they call, go motion.

Stop motion is an old-fashioned
technique used in movies like

"King Kong", could do
"Kong and the Dinosaurs".

The problem with stop motion is
you're filming puppets

one frame at a time
and they're not moving,

so Phil Tippett had come up with
this thing called go motion,

which kinda surmounted that.

Got some motion blur into it,
so the movement looks smoother.

And what they were also
investigating was,

maybe we could speed up the
process if he did stop motion.

And we'll use computers
to add that motion blur,

smooth out the motion,
make it look more realistic,

the way it would seem
if you photographed a

real dinosaur moving.

And suddenly it was like, hey,
we've had the breakthrough.

With special effects advisor,
Dennis Muren came in and says,

I think we can do this with CGI.
And he said two words, prove it.

George Lucas was actually
the one who sort of convinced

Spielberg that this was
the way to go.

He built out a model
he showed him.

This is how convincing
it could be.

And I think Spielberg really
had to see it.

Spielberg sees a
test reel of fully

computer-generated dinosaurs
and he's convinced.

The screening also inspires one
of the film's most iconic lines.

In the film, you see them
running, attacking,

doing all that stuff.

We don't need
stop motion anymore.

And Phil Tippett apparently said
something like, I'm extinct.

He really felt broken,

I think to the point where
Steven was like,

I'm gonna use that in the movie.

Jeff Goldblum responds to
something that

the Sam Neill character says.

- We're out of a job.
- Don't you mean extinct?

That line came from the
reaction they had in the room

when they were looking
at footage

and seeing how good it was.

CGI had gotten to the point
by 1991

where it could actually produce
those dinosaurs.

But he's not
ready to give up

live-action dinosaurs
completely.

This is where the genius
of Spielberg comes into play.

He's got like live-action
puppets and he's got CGI

mixed together and it just,
to this day it still works.

If you're a geek with like
your Blu-ray player

and you want to freeze-frame and
spot which is the real dinosaur,

the full-size, mechanical thing
that was actually there

on the set versus CGI.
It's pretty simple.

If you're seeing only
part of an animal.

If you're seeing a foot or a
claw, or maybe just a head

of a T-Rex peering through a
window of a Jeep,

that's probably the
life-action thing.

If you're seeing a full-scale,
top-to-bottom figure,

head-to-foot, walking, running,
that's gonna be CGI.

As a filmmaker,
Steven Spielberg knew he had

to get the dinosaurs right.

What he ended up getting was
groundbreaking CGI

and a really smooth marriage of
computer effects

and practical, real-life sets
all in one movie.

Spielberg turns his
attention to his human cast

finding the actors who can turn
scientists into super heroes.

It's summer of 1992

and only weeks away
from filming.

Spielberg is still searching
for the perfect lead actor

to play paleontologist,
Alan Grant.

After his leading man
in "Indiana Jones",

Harrison Ford turns
down the role.

He'd worked
with Spielberg before.

He had been in
"Raiders of the Lost Ark",

"Star Wars". He was kind of
the name in Hollywood.

Sam Neill was a fairly
successful leading man

from Australia.

He was kind of a fall back
when Harrison Ford said no.

It's not a role that's gonna
attract a lot of stars.

And you know something?
It didn't need a star.

It didn't want a star.
The dinosaurs are the star.

You know, it's not often you
get asked to play with dinosaurs

and um, you get a story
that you know,

takes you by the
scruff of the neck

and hurls you
down a rollercoaster

for a couple of hours.

Crichton's inspiration for

Neill's character is a
real-life paleontologist.

He's a guy called uh,

Jack Horner and he digs up
bones in uh, in Montana.

And my character's very
much based on him.

And he was also advising us
on the film.

Spielberg's vision
for John Hammond, the creator

of "Jurassic Park" is different
from Michael Crichton's.

John Hammond, in the book is
not a good guy.

Even at the end
after seeing all the disaster,

he's just saying to himself,

you know, I just didn't hire the
right people.

Next time, it's gonna be okay.
And then the dinosaurs eat him.

So...

Instead,
Spielberg sees Hammond

played by Richard Attenborough
as an idealist.

Here he's an
overenthusiast child.

He's much more interested in all
the wonders of these dinosaurs.

And he even brings his
grandchildren to see them.

- Grandpa!
- Kids!

He has no sense of the
jeopardy they might get into.

The John Hammond we got
in the film

is kinda the polar opposite.

He's warm-hearted.
He's well-intentioned.

He's trying to give
something grand to people.

Richard Attenborough,
he brings this gravitas and this

heft to that role because it is
a pretty layered character.

And you need somebody of that
scope to be so happy-go-lucky,

but also very serious and
delusional at the same time.

That scene where he's just
standing there, just looking

at the park where the
helicopter's just behind him.

And Grant startles him
because he's just seeing his

dream completely shattered.
It's his arc.

It comes from very happy,
look what I've done

to what have I done?

The role of Ellie Satler was
apparently read

by every woman in Hollywood.

This is one of the
biggest films at the time

and a lot of actresses were
clamoring for the role.

It's reported that Julianne
Moore was up for the role,

Gwyneth Paltrow, Sandra Bullock.

And what's so interesting is
that Laura Dern got a call

to audition for this and she had
just come off of a movie

with Nick Cage.
And she was kind of like,

I don't know if this
is right for me.

She was doing smaller movies and
she mentioned it to Nick Cage

and he was like,
a dinosaur movie?

You've gotta do this.

And she was kind of like,
really, Nick Cage?

I have to do a dinosaur movie?

And he convinced her
to go and do this,

so if it weren't for Nick Cage,

we wouldn't have Laura Dern on
the screen in this movie.

No one can really imagine
anyone else

other than Jeff Goldblum in the
role of Ian Malcolm because

he brought such charisma and
Jeff Goldblumness to the part.

Here's the thing with
Jeff Goldblum, Jeff Goldblum

always seems like
he's intrigued.

And as a scientist,
it worked perfectly.

He's like, oh my, yes, hmm.

So you're taking the DNA out
of the amber? Hmm.

Like how great is that?
Like he was perfect.

I guess I'm attracted to parts
and maybe emphasize that the

element of parts that are...
I would feel to me um, special

and refreshingly distinctive
in some way and unique.

Jeff Goldblum made
the character cool.

I think he was always
meant to be.

The book describes
mathematicians in general

who study chaos theory
as being the rock stars

of the science world.

And he came across that way
with his black, leather jacket.

He's the
Michael Crichton character.

You can tell that
Michael Crichton

is speaking through him.

Strangely enough, he could be
kind of a sex symbol.

I didn't realize that at the
time it came out,

but a couple of years ago
I saw a screening

at the Hollywood Bowl,
life-to-screen kind of thing

with the orchestra
playing the music.

And there's a scene where
Goldblum appears shirtless

and the female half of the
audience let us know

they approved pretty loudly.

And I thought, God, how did I
miss that all these years?

He's, he's not just an
intellectual nerd.

He's, you know, he's a sex
symbol, a scientific sex symbol.

Who knew?

Ariana Richards and
Joseph Mazzello

are cast as Hammond's
grandchildren.

It was just, I think the most
wonderful experience with Steven

and the dinosaurs
and everything.

Joe, how about for you?

Was it fun or was it scary
some of the time?

It was uh, really a thrill to
work with all the dinosaurs,

but the dinosaurs were scary
because they were just so real.

Like a lot of these giant,
influential films,

it's a film where you wouldn't
change a single cast member.

I think everyone works all the
way down to Samuel L. Jackson

and Wayne Knight, like every
person in this movie fits.

With the human cast
in place, Spielberg's

special effect's team finally
reveals their dinosaurs.

And thanks to that ingenious
combination of CGI

and real-life science,

they are like nothing else
audiences have ever seen.

Steven Spielberg, I believe
wanted to change the way

that we see dinosaurs on screen.
He wanted to make them

more agile, faster, scarier,
more predatory.

There had been a
paleontologist for a least

a decade theorizing that
dinosaurs were not cold-blooded,

slow, stupid reptiles,
but warm-blooded creatures

that moved fast.

So Spielberg, actually there's
some science here.

Dinosaurs we know, they're kind
of the precursors to birds.

So they weren't lumbering.

They made them more birdlike.

Kind of like when you see uh,
an ostrich running.

That thing moves.
That thing's fast.

I'll bet you'll never look at
birds the same way again.

It gave the animals
believable behaviors

and I think that had a lot to do

with Crichton
thinking things through.

We can't know for sure
how a T-Rex hunted,

how a raptor hunted,

but he looked at
real-world animals and said,

well, what do they do?
How do they hunt?

Hey, let's say raptors
hunt in packs.

The animatronics actually
had to be operated by a person

who was inside the velociraptor

and it was extremely
claustrophobic.

They have a full-body
animatronic or just the

half suit where somebody
could step into it,

and then blending that
with the CG

as it's jumping up
onto a counter.

It's incredible what they did.

They spent at least two weeks
on that, maybe more.

It's an amazing bit of
choreography with camera,

effects, kids, animatronics that
Spielberg was able to pull off.

I just don't know how many
directors could do that.

I think that if we
hadn't had CGI,

Spielberg probably
could have done

the raptor sequence at the end

where they're stalking the kids
through the kitchen,

but it would have been shadows
on the walls.

You would have seen a
live-action raptor head

come over a table for a second.

You would've seen a claw
on the floor.

And it would've been a lot of
stuff on the kids wondering,

is it this way?
Is it that way?

Where is it coming from?

And it could have been a pretty
good sequence,

but once you add the CGI,

you could film a
full-scale raptor walking

from head-to-foot, jumping up
on a table, looking around.

It works to such a degree
that you were on the edge

of your seat the entire time.

The way Spielberg
brings the actors and dinosaurs

together on-screen changes
filmmaking forever.

Half the time there's
nothing there,

so you're reacting to nothing.

And then half the time,
and Dennis Muren and his

Oscar-winning team
of ILM people.

And then half the time,
it's Stan Winston's animatronic

models that were there.

You can't tell what is what.
It's seamless.

It is so perfectly done that it
was awe-inspiring

and that's what made the movie.

Spielberg knew, this movie
would live and die

based on how well presented
the dinosaurs were.

They had to be scary.
They had to be agile.

Spielberg did a great job
building the suspense

and making them horrifying.

As shooting begins,
Spielberg learns to direct

dinosaurs and resorts to roaring
at the actors himself.

Principal photography

on Steven Spielberg's,
"Jurassic Park"

begins in August of 1992
in Hawaii and California.

The triceratops animatronic is
the first dinosaur on set

with the cast and she makes
quite an impression.

The actors were all
completely enthralled.

They were all just taken back
how this thing looks so real.

They actually made it look
like it was breathing.

Where you'd see its stomach
actually rise and fall,

rise and fall.

And I feel like it's an avatar
for Spielberg at that moment.

You get to see the love that
Steven had for these creatures

when Alan Grant is laying on the
side of the triceratops there.

It's beautiful.

Directors love
on-set live effects

because you don't have to
wait a month

for the effects company to bring
the footage back

and maybe it works,
maybe it doesn't.

And you've got to ask them
to do it again

and it takes another month.
It's right there on set.

You have an opportunity for
real-life improvisation.

The actors walk in and they see
it and they get an idea

of how their character would
react to seeing this thing live,

you know?

You can tell the operator
to do this or that,

or do some little gesture.

So directors would prefer
to have as much of that

as they can.

The actors on set said that
they kind of had that moment.

You know, when they saw the
T-Rex for the first time,

it was this huge,
heavy, hulking thing.

The animatronic T-Rex
was so massive.

It weighed eight tons.

It was 36 feet long
and 18 feet tall.

It was something you just
can't fathom these days.

Scale matters, right?
Why make people act?

Just build a real dinosaur
and get them to react.

It's brilliant if you
think about it.

It's like, wow,
that's a real dinosaur, bro.

You sort of forget that actors
are on set acting

and responding to things
that don't actually exist.

Spielberg wanted to make it a
little bit easier for them,

so he was on set with a
megaphone making roaring noises.

In theory to make it easier
for the actors to respond,

but what we know was that on
set, they were just cracking up.

Sometimes there's a guy
with a stick with a

cardboard dinosaur head on it.

And you know, sometimes
Steven Spielberg takes

the bullhorn and goes,
roar, you know.

You have to look terrified?

Yeah, I mean, I have to go,
what's that?

So Spielberg actually is like,

you're gonna talk to this
tennis ball.

Like seriously creating
scenes out of nothing.

They don't look like actors
looking at tennis balls

or waiting for green screens.

They look like people
who are experiencing

what this movie is about.

We fall out of blockbusters when
we don't buy what's happening.

Because then we start
to see the seams.

We start to see the CGI.
We start to see the problems.

When we don't believe the
veracity of what's on screen,

a blockbuster falls apart.

Skywalker Sound went out
to find new sounds.

They actually went out and
recorded all new animal sounds.

And they got some really iconic
sounds from there.

They did so much testing and
recording, upwards of like 20

or so different animals
for just one creature.

And then you see them splicing
it all together and making sure

all the levels are accurate.
And it came out perfectly.

The T-Rex's roar,
the main roar that we all hear,

it's actually a baby elephant.

The velociraptors have many
different sounds,

but when it comes to the attack,
there is this bassy sound to it,

but also this really, really
high-pitched noise.

And apparently they used a
walrus for the lower end and

a boy dolphin trying to go
after a girl dolphin

for the higher register.

How do you come up with that?
It's brilliant.

The most difficult
dinosaur effect to create

appears on screen
to be the simplest.

So when the characters are
inside the Ford Explorer,

you need to have a sense of,

something big is out
in the jungle,

something big is coming.

And there's of course,
there's the impact.

You can hear it out there,
but you also need to feel it.

And you need to sense it
in a different way.

It actually was Spielberg's
idea, all that tonnage

hitting the ground has
to create some type of tremor.

It's a brilliant idea.

It's a little like "Jaws"
where you have da, da, da, da

where that gives you
something's coming.

There's the warning.
And it works magnificently

'cause now you've got both fear
and suspense going for you.

One of those great Spielberg
touches that's now part

of pop culture history.

You just want them
to get out of there.

Michael Lantieri was playing
guitar and he had a glass

of water on the guitar, and
he created the perfect ripple.

And he rigged it up,
so that he took a guitar string,

fed it through the vehicle
into that glass

and plucked it, and it created
that perfect circle

that you see inside the film.

It's just one
of the best sequences

in action-film history.

Spielberg makes
another key change

to Crichton's book, the ending.

The ending in the book is
very different from the film.

The ending of the book actually
kills off two characters

that don't die out in the film.

Hammond dies in the book,
and Malcolm dies in the book.

Spielberg, when they filmed the
scene with the T-Rex,

he realized this is
the star of the movie.

The audience wants more T-Rex.

So they brought him back and
yeah, he ate the raptors

at the end, which was great.
That was a great moment.

I think that's something that
you see in other Spielberg work.

He exec-produced "Gremlins".

And originally, Gizmo, the good
gremlin was only going

to be like in the first act.
And he told, Joe Dante,

the director, the audience is
going to love Gizmo.

They're gonna want to see him
throughout the rest of the film.

So that was his understanding
of what audiences wanted.

It's like, you can't have this
big thing with the T-Rex

in the middle of the movie and
then not see him anymore.

He saw that potential
in the T-Rex and he said,

no, we've got to bring her back.
What is it?

The most iconic scene
in cinema history.

The banner falling down saying,
when dinosaurs ruled the earth,

it's just incredible.

Filming finishes on
budget and 12 days ahead

of schedule in November 1992.

It's a tribute to how much
Spielberg knew about filmmaking

by this time in his career
to be able to do that

and hit his mark so perfectly.

Spielberg's
producing partner,

Kathleen Kennedy teams up
with George Lucas

to oversee post-production.

Since Spielberg is already
on set of his next film,

"Schindler's List".

He'd have a day spent at a
concentration camp draining him.

And he'd come back at night and
had to spend two or three hours

on the phone to people back
in Hollywood

worrying about dinosaurs
running around.

And he was living
in both worlds.

This was the movie that was
going to win him an Oscar.

This was a really
deep, heavy movie.

He was beginning to realize
that he got into filmmaking

to say something.

And creating dinosaurs isn't
really saying anything.

He was wearying of the fact that
he was worrying about dinosaurs

when he really wanted to worry
about what happened in Poland

and what happened
to his ancestors.

And so, I can see this is a
turning point for him.

After this film, he continued
to make a popcorn movie.

He continued to make
"Jurassic Park".

He even made another
"Indiana Jones" film.

He will always go
to those crowd pleasers,

but he's now made "Lincoln".
He's now made "Munich".

He's now made
"Schindler's List".

He now wants to make
serious films

that utilize all his talents as
a filmmaker.

Spielberg calls it
one of the most difficult times

in his life as a filmmaker,
but will it pay off?

He also knows that if film goers
don't buy his dinosaurs,

"Jurassic Park" will flop.

It's a box office gamble
65 million years in the making.

"Jurassic Park"
began as a book that took

mega-author, Michael Crichton
nearly a decade to write.

And three years after
it was published, director,

Steven Spielberg has brought
dinosaurs roaring back to life

on the big screen.

The film is set to premier
in June of 1993

and in an unprecedented move,

Universal spends more on the
film's marketing

than it does on the film's
$63 million production budget.

Little known fact
about "Jurassic Park".

It really wasn't a movie as
much as it was a t-shirt,

cup, toy campaign supported
by a movie.

They spent $65 million
on the marketing campaign.

That was more than the budget
of the film itself.

The only thing more gigantic
than the dinosaurs themselves

was the marketing
for this movie.

Nowadays,
big marketing campaigns

where production houses
put millions of dollars into it

is sort of the norm,

but you have to keep in mind
that in the early '90s,

what "Jurassic Park"
did was unprecedented.

You could not turn a corner,
turn on the TV,

turn on the radio without
hearing about this movie.

The funny thing about the
marketing campaign

is the movie makes fun of it.

There's a panning shot of all
the "Jurassic Park" merchadise

that's going to be on display
when this park finally opens.

And in fact, that is the
merchandise for the movie.

And I think Spielberg
took a little bit of flack

for that film.

Some people accused
him of hypocrisy.

I mean, it's a movie about how
bad an idea this theme park is,

but then when you go to the
scenes of the theme park,

there's merchandise caps
for sale, and there was

this feeling of,
hey, they're gonna be selling

those caps and those water
bottles in real life.

How hypocritical is that?

So he's kind of spoofing theme
parks, but he's also spoofing

his own marketing campaign.
It's almost funny, you know?

And he was smart enough
to put that in the movie.

Both the marketing
campaign and the filmmaker's

movie magic pay off when
"Jurassic Park" hits theaters.

It's a thundering success.

There aren't a lot
of movies that appeal

to literally every generation
and every type of person.

Everything comes together
to make it so it's a movie

that you kind of can't
look away from.

And I think whether you were
a nine year old like me,

or you were a 90 year old,

you weren't going to
miss this event.

People went to see
it more than once.

This was a movie
that was unbelievable.

That you could see this on film.

"Jurassic Park" made over
$914 million at the worldwide

box office during its
first initial release.

It exceeded all expectations
and in the long run,

Steven Spielberg actually
broke his worldwide record

set by "ET".

So once again,
Steven Spielberg

proving that the only person
that can beat Steven Spielberg

is Steven Spielberg.

"ET", highest grossing movie.

And then of course,

"Jurassic Park",
highest grossing movie.

It was a summer blockbuster
that stayed in theaters

until February.

The cast of the film
is so wonderful,

but that's not why audiences
sought this movie out.

They sought this movie out
because of the dinosaurs.

These are the main attraction
and the main stars of the movie.

But Steven Spielberg,
he's a clever director

and he kinda
teases the audience.

He shows you a brachiosaurus,
so gentle, so beautiful.

And then he tells you...
- We have a T-Rex.

So he's giving you
something beautiful

and giving you something deadly
at the same time.

And that's the magic
of Spielberg

'cause he's been making you wait
this entire time.

Spielberg doing
what he does best,

orchestrating a moment
that takes your breath away

as the actors themselves
lose their breaths.

Sam Neill grabs Laura Dern's
head, turns it around,

and then we get that massive,

expansive shot of the dinosaurs
roaming freely in the fields.

It's beautiful.
It's majestic.

It's this thing that you and I
will never see in real life.

This thing is 30 feet,
40 feet tall, a long neck,

their feet look like
trunks of trees.

These things are huge.

You believe that they're
actually looking at dinosaurs.

They sell the moment.

They sell the believablity
of it.

And that is so essential
to movies like this.

We fall out of blockbusters when
we don't buy what's happening.

There's not a moment
in "Jurassic Park"

where we don't buy it.
There's not a moment.

No movie had ever been
made like this before.

And it was just a phenomenon
and deservedly so.

Now the T-Rex, I would say is
the star of the film,

the star of the
franchise really.

And Steven Spielberg really,
really is clever in the way

that he unveils this guy.

Earlier in the film,
there is a goat that shows up

to entice the T-Rex.
The T-Rex doesn't show up.

But in the rain later, Lex in
the film starts wondering,

where's the goat?

And you see the goat like pop
right on top of the car,

and then you see the goat
being eaten,

swallowed up by the T-Rex.

And you see that T-Rex lumber
out and she does that epic roar.

One of the best scenes ever.

It's the best sequence, I
think in that film.

And it's something that really
stands the test of time

where anytime somebody
mentions "Jurassic Park",

it's that moment.

Everyone loved the lawyer
getting eaten on the toilet.

I mean, what did lawyers
ever do to you, people?

I mean, seriously to this day,
people love that scene.

You'll see interviews with
people who study animal behavior

going, oh yeah, I saw real
predator behavior in that movie.

T-Rex picking up the lawyer
from the toilet, it's like,

maybe that's how
a 20-foot tall predator

would deal with its prey,
you know?

Pick it up, yank it up into the
air, and shake it, and kill it.

There's not much worse of a
death that you can have

than dying on a toilet
from a T-Rex.

It was sort of that mix of
like cringing and jumping,

and laughing at the same time.

It was like a meme moment
before memes were a thing.

Another iconic scene
is the T-Rex chase scene.

It was a challenge for the CGI
team to create this bipedal

of say 15 foot, 40 long,
40 long, um, carnivore running

because there's nothing
to reference it from.

It gets closer and closer,
hits the side of the car.

You see the terror
in Laura Dern's face.

And Goldblum had so many
great moments in this movie.

The dinosaurs chasing them
in the open-air Jeep

and Goldblum says,
- Must go faster.

This is what makes that
movie so memorable and has

staying power is that you
get these little, comedic

relief moments while
you're also terrified.

The dinosaurs are actually
only in this movie,

which is over two hours
long for 14 minutes.

It doesn't matter.

All we're gonna talk
about is the dinosaurs.

Steven Spielberg
smashes records

whenever he feels like it.

He goes off and makes a side
passion project, then he comes

back and breaks box office
records with movies like this.

It took off.
It was huge.

Anyone who saw "Jurassic Park"
knew they were going to make

more of these.
They were going to make toys.

They were going to
make video games.

They were going to probably
make a TV series eventually

and they have.

It was an industry from
the minute we saw it.

The next question for Spielberg,

how to convince Michael Crichton
to write a sequel.

After the success of the novel,

"Jurassic Park" in 1990,

Michael Crichton had no plans
to write a sequel.

He's never written one before.

But given the success of the
film, he reconsiders.

The movie made so much money
and was so well received

that they needed a sequel,
so Steven basically begged

Michael Crichton to write a
novel that they could use.

"The Lost World" was
published in September 1995

and spends eight weeks at number
one on the best seller list.

It is the only sequel
Crichton ever writes.

Months before the release in
'97, well, we got this teaser.

There was just rain.
It said something has survived.

And the leading star
of this film was Jeff Goldblum

reprising his role
as Dr. Malcolm.

The thing about "Lost World"
is it had a lot to live up to.

That first movie was record
breaking and industry changing,

and the number-one movie
of the year,

and people's favorite movie
of all time.

So how do you follow that up?

It was mid 1997.

The lines went three times
around this theater.

This film was huge.

"The Lost World"
makes $92 million

in its opening weekend and
reaches the $100 million mark

in just five and a half days.

Another sequel is
immediately planned.

And "Jurassic Park III"
is released in 2001.

With director Joe Johnston at
the helm instead of Spielberg.

And who's reprising his role
is Sam Neill as Alan Grant.

And it's so great to see Grant
back in the franchise

'cause he wasn't in
the second film.

They go back to this island and
a new dinosaur is introduced,

a bigger, badder dinosaur
than the T-Rex.

I loved making the film.
I had a great time doing it.

And um, if they ask me
to do it again, I'd do it.

We'll see.

Here's the thing
about "Jurassic Park III",

I think they weren't quite
sure what movie to make when

they made "Jurassic Park III".

I think they were trying
to tell multiple stories

at the same time and
it lacks the focus.

It was not Spielberg anymore
and it felt different.

Some of the CG wasn't up
to par, but a lot of it was

actually really, really great.
It looked brilliant.

The third movie is
successful enough

to warrant a fourth,

but in 2008, Crichton dies
after battling lymphoma.

And plans for the
sequel are shelved.

It was kind of dead in the
water for a very long time.

In 2015,
Spielberg reboots the series

as an executive producer
creating "Jurassic World".

We were waiting 14 years
for this.

Finally we got an announcement
that was real

and it was "Jurassic World".

And Colin Trevorrow was
going to direct it.

With T-Rex sized expectations

for the new film series, the
pressure is on its new stars,

Chris Pratt and
Bryce Dallas Howard.

"Jurassic Park" was sort of
our generation's "Star Wars".

Like it's a really,
it's a really big deal.

What we keep finding ourselves
doing on set is when we're

watching playback, we'll be
like, da, da, da, da, da

like all in chorus.

We'll all be singing along
as we watch some kind of like

sweeping shot unfold.

"Jurassic World"
makes $200 million in three days

and $1.67 billion in total.

Fans are gonna flock
to this new movie because

it's been revived.

People love Chris Pratt, what
he's brought to the franchise.

We're just wondering,
where is this going to go next?

I thought "Jurassic World"

was like the stupidest idea
I had ever heard.

They're gonna be training
the raptors to be like some

kind of paramilitary group
taking orders.

It sounded really dumb and then
I saw the movie and I thought,

God, that was so wonderful.
So it made a believer out of me.

It's inspired a lot of people
to again start to look

into palentology or to do things
you know, in the CG world.

So it kind of is doing

exactly what "Jurassic Park"
did for a new audience.

This film was a monster
in the box office.

Dinosaurs rule the earth again
in 2015.

Any other film
that came out that year

was just trampled by this film.

"Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom"

arrives in 2018 and is the third
"Jurassic Park" film

to pass the $1 billion mark.

The park has been abandoned.

The dinosaurs have been left
to fend for themselves

on the island.
There're no human beings here

and there's an extinction-level
event happening

that is going to wipe out
the remaining dinosaurs,

and Claire wants to
go and get them.

"Jurassic World
Fallen Kingdom"

comes out of nowhere
and decides it wants to destroy

everything you know about
"Jurassic Park".

It literally burns the island to
the ground.

It was a beautiful way
to kind of send off the island

and that storyline, the old
past kind of disappearing.

But it starts to encounter
new terrors and new horrors

as dinosaurs are getting let
out into the wild in America.

And you have to now deal
with even scarier hybrids.

Obviously, by the time

of "Jurassic World" and
"Fallen Kingdom",

CGI has totally taken over.

The "Jurassic"
franchise is now among the

most profitable on the planet
based on its rate of return

surpassing even "Star Wars"
and "Harry Potter".

The only people that I feel
bad for when I look at

"Jurassic Park"
are the dinosaurs

'cause they're not getting
anything.

They're making no
residuals, baby.

In addition
to the films, there are

theme park attractions
on multiple continents,

toys, games, collectibles
and an animated series.

"Jurassic Park" is an
iconic commodity now,

and I do mean commodity.

The movies, I don't know if they
existed to promote the toys,

if the toys were just
to promote the movies.

It's kind of hard to tell.

And there's been enough time
going by that I think a new

generation can rediscover
"Jurassic Park" and they can

rediscover, especially the
younger kids, the wonder,

which is what the whole thing
is predicated on.

It's what the
Richard Attenborough character,

John Hammond was,
the wonder of these creatures.

I mean, he's in awe.

He's childlike and
that's the audience.

The childlike nature
of our own selves.

Even Jimmy Kimmel
remains enchanted

a quarter of a century later
when he awards a

Lifetime Achievement Award
to Martin Ferrero

for one of the films
most memorable scenes.

Ladies and gentlemen,
it is my honor to present this

Lifetime Achievement Award
to the guy who got eaten off

the toilet in "Jurassic Park",
Martin Ferrero.

Martin, come on out.

For "Jurassic" fans,

the original film remains
the mosquito in the amber.

It's the treasure that brought
dinosaurs back to life forever.

I think fans of dinosaurs
have forever been changed

by "Jurassic Park".

The toys, and figures, and
merchandise we all have

in our collections, it's given
us places to go and experience

whether it be a theme park or a
live tour, or an exhibition.

We get to actually, physically
walk through "Jurassic World".

We cannot get
enough dinosaurs.

This explains why there's
been sequel after sequel,

theme park ride after
theme park ride.

"Jurassic Park" taps into
our thrill of seeing things

that we can only imagine.
It's got the monster movie.

It's got the action, adventure,
survival and heroes.

"Jurassic Park"
really holds up.

It has stood the test of time.

I think that speaks to how
much time the team spent

on the technology to make
sure it was believable,

that it really sucked you in.

There is a scientific
grounding to a lot

of the stuff that happened.

And it created a whole huge
interest in young kids

in paleontology.

It's one thing to see a skeleton
in a natural history museum.

It's quite another to see it
come alive on screen.

And you see the way
it could've moved

and the way it
could've attacked.

And the speed at which these
things move, the T-Rex.

That still is amazing and you
can watch this film many times

and still get off on all this
information you're being given

about creatures that no longer
exist, but did once exist.

When I hear the words,
"Jurassic Park", I think

of something that might not be
what everyone thinks of.

I think that movie
made science cool.

I think that movie introduced
so many people to history,

and genetics, and mutations
in ways that no one could

have ever predicted.

And it starred characters
who played scientists

and it made science neat.

I think about the legacy
of intellectualism

related to "Jurassic Park".

It doesn't have to be a
sexy hero or a strong hero,

it can be a smart hero.

We had palentologists.
We had mathematicians.

We had a hacker with Lex.

A lot of that influenced a lot
of kids growing up at the time.

I wanted to be a palentologist.

And I feel like the palentology
field grew from "Jurassic Park".

It made kids become interested
in these subjects.

Alan Grant is the hero of the
film and you can be him.

"Jurassic Park" changed
the modern blockbuster.

A lot of people think it
changed it purely through CGI

and through effects.

And that's a certain huge part
of it, but it also changed what

these stories could be about.
Science is cool.

Blockbusters can be about
dinosaurs and they can be about

stuff we never imagined before.

Action movies can be unexpected.