The Lost World: Jurassic Park movie storyline. On Isla Sorna, a young girl named Cathy Bowman (Camilla Belle) wanders around during a family vacation, and survives an attack by a swarm of Compsognathus. Her parents file a lawsuit against the genetics company InGen, now headed by John Hammond’s (Richard Attenborough) nephew, Peter Ludlow (Arliss Howard), who plans to use Isla Sorna to alleviate the financial losses imposed by the incident that occurred at Jurassic Park four years earlier.
Mathematician Dr. Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) meets Hammond at his mansion. Hammond explains that Isla Sorna, abandoned years earlier during a hurricane, is where InGen created their dinosaurs before moving them to Jurassic Park on Isla Nublar. Hammond hopes to stop InGen by sending a team to Isla Sorna to document the dinosaurs, to help rally public support against human interference on the island. Ian, with his memories of the Jurassic Park incident, is reluctant to go to the island. After learning that his girlfriend, paleontologist Dr. Sarah Harding (Julianne Moore), is part of the team and is already on Isla Sorna, Ian agrees to go to the island, but only to retrieve her.
Ian meets his teammates, Eddie Carr (Richard Schiff), an equipment specialist and engineer, and Nick Van Owen (Vince Vaughn), a video documentarian. After arriving on the island, they locate Sarah and discover that Ian’s daughter, Kelly (Vanessa Lee Chester), had stowed away in a trailer being used as a mobile base.
They then watch as an InGen team of mercenaries, hunters and paleontologists led by Ludlow arrive to capture several dinosaurs. Meanwhile, team leader Roland Tembo (Pete Postlethwaite) hopes to capture a male Tyrannosaurus by luring it to the cries of its injured infant. That night, Ian’s team sneak into the InGen camp and learn the captured dinosaurs will be brought to a newly proposed theme park in San Diego. This prompts Nick and Sarah to free the caged dinosaurs, wreaking havoc upon the camp.
Nick also frees the infant T. rex and takes it to the trailer to mend its broken leg. After securing Kelly with Eddie, Ian realizes the infant’s parents are searching for it and rushes to the trailer. As soon as Ian arrives, the infant’s parents emerge on both sides of the trailer. The infant is released to the adult T. rexes, which then attack the trailer, pushing it over the edge of a nearby cliff.
Eddie soon arrives, but as he tries to pull the trailer back over the edge with an SUV, the adult T. rexes return and devour him. The trailer and the SUV both plummet off the cliff and are destroyed. Ian, Sarah, and Nick are rescued by the InGen team, along with Kelly. With both groups’ communications equipment and vehicles destroyed, they team up to search for the old InGen compound’s radio station on foot.
The Lost World: Jurassic Park is a 1997 American science-fiction adventure film and the second installment in the Jurassic Park film series. A sequel to 1993’s Jurassic Park, the film was directed by Steven Spielberg and written by David Koepp, loosely based on Michael Crichton’s 1995 novel The Lost World. Jeff Goldblum returns as the chaos-theorist and eccentric mathematician Ian Malcolm, leading a cast that includes Julianne Moore, Pete Postlethwaite, Vince Vaughn, Vanessa Lee Chester and Arliss Howard. Goldblum is the only actor from the previous film to return with a major role. Cameos feature return appearances by Richard Attenborough as John Hammond and a brief appearance by Joseph Mazzello and Ariana Richards as Hammond’s grandchildren Tim and Lex.
The story is set four years after the events of the original film and centers around the fictional Isla Sorna, a deserted island located off Central America’s Pacific Coast, near Costa Rica, where the cloned dinosaurs made by John Hammond’s InGen have been roaming free in their own ecosystem. Learning that his nephew, who took control of InGen, is planning to capture the Isla Sorna dinosaurs and bring them to the mainland, Hammond sends an expedition led by Dr. Ian Malcolm to arrive there before InGen’s squad. The two groups confront each other in the face of extreme danger and then team up in order to survive.
After the original book’s release and the first film’s success, Crichton was pressured by fans and Spielberg himself for a sequel novel. After the book was published in 1995, production began on a film sequel. The Lost World’s plot and imagery is substantially darker than the previous film, and the movie has more extensive usage of computer-generated imagery to depict the dinosaurs, along with life-sized animatronics. The film has a 51% approval rating at Rotten Tomatoes and grossed over $618 million worldwide. A sequel, Jurassic Park III, was released on July 18, 2001, followed by a fourth installment in the series, Jurassic World, which was released on June 12, 2015.
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
Directed by: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Jeff Goldblum, Julianne Moore, Pete Postlethwaite, Arliss Howard, Vanessa Lee Chester, Richard Attenborough, Ariana Richards, Peter Stormare, Camilla Belle
Screenplay by: David Koepp
Production Design by: Rick Carter
Cinematography by: Janusz Kamiński
Film Editing by: Michael Kahn
Set Decoration by: Gary Fettis
Art Direction by: Lauren E. Polizzi, Paul Sonski, William James Teegarden
Music by: John Williams
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for intense sci-fi terror and violence.
Distributed by: Universal Pictures
Release Date: May 23, 1997
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