The deleted scene from 1993’s ‘Jurassic Park’ that made its way into ‘Jurassic World Rebirth’
Released last week, the latest instalment in the ‘Jurassic Park’ movie franchise features a sequence repurposed from a deleted scene in the first film.
The screenwriter of Jurassic World Rebirth has explained how advances in CGI technology allowed the makers of the new movie to repurpose a deleted scene from the opening instalment in the Jurassic Park film franchise.
Jurassic World Rebirth, the seventh movie in a series of sci-fi thrillers that revolve around the de-extinction of dinosaurs, includes a river scene in which a family on an inflatable raft attempts to escape a swimming Tyrannosaurus rex.
Just over three decades ago, the makers of the original movie, Jurassic Park, were forced to cut a similar sequence, which depicted palaeontologist Alan Grant (Sam Neill) coming face to face with a waterborne T. Rex.
“Water was still, in ’92, a big challenge”
Speaking to Entertainment Weekly last week, Jurassic World Rebirth screenwriter David Koepp explained: “It was 1992 and nobody knew if the CGI was going to work, much less be able to make a dinosaur swim.
“It was already expensive enough and with unproven technology, so it didn’t work. Water was still, in ’92, a big challenge. As you can see, it’s not anymore.”
“Pretty much straight out of the book”
The deleted scene featured in Michael Crichton’s 1990 novel Jurassic Park, the first of two books adapted to the big screen for the movie franchise.
Koepp, who co-wrote 1993’s initial film with Crichton, says the Jurassic World Rebirth raft sequence is “pretty much straight out of the book.”
“When I reached the point in the draft where I was writing the raft sequence, I had the book here and I was typing here [gestures they were side by side],” Koepp told Entertainment Weekly.
The 62-year-old added that the writing process for Jurassic World Rebirth also saw him draw on other passages from the first book and Crichton’s 1995 follow-up novel, The Lost World.
“I found scenes, I found monologues, I found inspiration and thoughts that were a big part of this movie,” said Koepp, who was last involved in the film series when he wrote the 1997 picture The Lost World: Jurassic Park.
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What is Jurassic World Rebirth about?
A sequel to 2022’s Jurassic World Dominion, the latest instalment in the film franchise stars Scarlett Johansson, Mahershala Ali and Jonathan Bailey as a group of adventurers who are sent to a tropical island research facility inhabited by dinosaurs.
Together, they form an extraction team that must bring back biomaterial samples of three major prehistoric animals.
“The three most colossal creatures across land, sea and air within that tropical biosphere hold, in their DNA, the key to a drug that will bring miraculous life-saving benefits to humankind,” explains the film’s distributor, Universal Pictures.
Jurassic World Rebirth had its international premiere in London on Tuesday, June 17, and was released in theaters in the United States on Wednesday, July 2.
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