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Feb 18, 2024 · The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997 Film)/Scripts - Jurassic Outpost Encyclopedia. Sequence Gaps Detected! This article contains all known drafts of the screenplay for The Lost World: Jurassic Park. Drafts & Revisions. Distribution List. Categories: Work in Progress. Film Universe.
The producers pleaded with Spielberg to keep the story closer to the novel but he couldn’t shake the vision of a T-Rex in San Diego. They wanted to make that a different film entirely but he insisted it fit into the Lost World so the whole thing got a massive retooling.
- Overview
- Intro
- Scene 1: Tropical Lagoon
- Scene 2: Further down the beach
- Scene 3: Back to the beach
- Scene 4: Down the beach
- Scene 5: Board room
- Scene 9: Hammond's bedroom
- Scene 13: Mobile Field Systems
This article contains the original script of the movie The Lost World: Jurassic Park. Note the script is sometimes very different from the movie.
The Lost World:
Jurassic Park
screenplay by
David Koepp
based on the novel by
Michael Crichton
1 EXT TROPICAL LAGOON DAY
A 135 foot luxury yacht is anchored just offshore in a tropical lagoon. The beach is a stunning crescent of sand at the jungle fringe, utterly deserted.
ISLA SORNA
87 miles southwest of Nublar
Two SHIP HANDS, dressed in white uniforms, have set up a picnic table with three chairs on the sand and are carefully laying out luncheon service - - fine china, silver, crystal descanters with red and white wine.
PAUL BOWMAN, fortyish, sits in a chair off to the side, reading. MRS. BOWMAN, painfully thin, with the perpetually surprised look of a woman who’s had her eyes done more than once, supervises the setting of the table.
2 FURTHER DOWN THE BEACH,
Cathy keeps wandering away, MUTTERING to herself as her parents’ quarreling voices fade in the distance.
CATHY
Please be quiet, please be quiet, please be quiet . . .
Rounding a curve in the beach, her parents disappear from view behind her. A RUSTLING sound draws her attention, and she turns, toward where the thick jungle foliage gives way to the sand.
A large bush, maybe twelve feet tall, is moving, its branches swaying and shaking. Curious, Cathy walks up to the bush, which abruptly stops moving.
3 BACK ON THE BEACH,
the table is set. Mrs. Bowman calls out.
MRS. BOWMAN
Cathy, sweetheart! Lunch is ready!
From around the curve of the beach, a flock of birds bolts from the jungle trees as Cathy’s shrill SCREAMS suddenly pierce the air.
MRS. BOWMAN
4 DOWN THE BEACH,
Mrs. Bowman stops dead in her tracks when she rounds the bend in the beach. We don’t see what she sees, only hear the frenzied SQUEAKING of the strange compys. Mr. Bowman and the Hands race past her to help Cathy as Mrs. Bowman lets loose a horrified, slack-jawed SCREAM, her mouth a perfect oval.
5 INT BOARD ROOM DAY
Mrs. Bowman’s screaming face dissolves slowly over the yawning face of a board CORPORATE EXECUTIVE. TWENTY OTHER EXECUTIVES sit around a conference table in the boardroom of a monied corporation. All are in expensive suits, most are over sixty. There are a few BACKBENCHERS too, lawyers and support staff. Empty coffee cups and fast food containers on the table hint that everyone’s been here for a long time.
Outside large plate glass windows, the skyline of downtown San Diego is visible, rising up over the ocean, which glitters in the Southern California sunlight.
A familiar VOICE resounds as we move down the long table, past the grim faces of the Board Members.
VOICE (o.s.)
The hurricane seemed like a disaster at the time, but now I think about it was a blessing, nature’s way of freeing those animals from their human confines. Of giving them another chance to survive, but this time as they were meant to without man’s interference.
CUT TO: 9 INT HAMMOND’S BEDROOM NIGHT
MALCOLM enters a darkened bedroom. JOHN HAMMOND lies in the bed we saw earlier, on the other side of the room. Medical equipment has been disguised as well possible among the furniture and flowers, but the sheer abundance of it tells us that whatever has stricken him is going to win this battle.
HAMMOND Ian! Don’t linger in the doorway like an ingenue, come in, come in!
Malcolm steps further into the room.
HAMMOND (cont’d) It’s good o see you, it really is. How’s the leg?
MALCOLM Resentful.
CUT TO: 13 INT MOBILE FIELD SYSTEMS DAY
In a large warehouse, the SPARKS of an acetylene torch fly as WORKMEN make modifications on several vehicles, including a dark-green Mercedes Benz AAV (all-activity vehicle). The hood of the AAV is up and the V-6 engine has been pulled out; a new, smaller engine is lowered in its place.
To one side are two long trailers, connected by am accordion-like passageway, like on a subway car, allowing one to be towed behind the other.
The warehouse hums with activity as the Workmen scramble to meet a deadline. EDDIE CARR, fortyish, confronts MALCOLM, who carries a satellite phone, a bright green headset that attaches to a heavy battery base. He dials the phone and waits for an answer while Eddie talks.
EDDIE You can’t shave three days off my deadline and expect everything to be ready! We’re not fully supplied, I haven’t field tested any of this - -
MALCOLM (hanging up the phone) Damn it! Why doesn’t Sarah answer her satellite phone?!
To prepare before writing the script, Spielberg was more insistent that Koepp watch the 1925 film, The Lost World, than he was on having him read Crichton's novel, which Koepp also did. So Crichton wasn't consulted about the sequel until after the script was finished AND Koepp/Spielberg had been discussing ideas for the film for more than a ...
The Lost World: Jurassic Park is a 1997 American science fiction action film. [4] It is the second installment in the Jurassic Park franchise and the second film in the original Jurassic Park trilogy.
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SARAH Ian, if we recall the boat now, we've made two invasive landings in one day. That'll have to go in any paper I write, and it will leave room for people to say our findings were contaminated. You know the academic world as well as I do, once they smell blood in the water, you're dead.
