The Lost World: Jurassic Park: Book vs. Movie
Steven Spielberg’s The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) draws on Michael Crichton’s 1995 novel The Lost World. Ian Malcolm joins an expedition to an island where InGen’s dinosaurs have survived.
About the book and the movie
- Author
- Michael Crichton
- Year
- 1995
- Pages
- 448Buy book
- Audiobook length
- 15 hr 18 minGet audiobook
- Narrator
- Scott Brick
- Series
- Jurassic Park, book 2
Reports of strange animal remains convince paleontologist Richard Levine that living dinosaurs may survive on an island off Costa Rica. When his expedition goes wrong, Ian Malcolm joins the effort to reach him. On Isla Sorna, the researchers try to understand an ecosystem created by InGen while a rival party seeks to steal its discoveries.
- Director
- Steven Spielberg
- Writer
- David Koepp
- Year
- 1997
- Runtime
- 2 hr 9 minWatch on Amazon
- Cast
- Jeff Goldblum, Julianne Moore, Pete Postlethwaite, Arliss Howard
- Genre
- action, Adventure, science fiction
- IMDb
- View on IMDb
Ian Malcolm learns that his girlfriend, Sarah Harding, is already studying dinosaurs on a second island used by InGen. He goes after her, expecting to bring her home, and discovers that his daughter has stowed away. The arrival of hunters intent on capturing the animals leaves him trying to keep his family alive amid two competing expeditions.
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