Get to Know the "Jurassic Park" Movie Franchise
Premise: Scientists use dinosaur DNA culled from prehistoric mosquitoes frozen in amber to create dinosaur clones to stock a planned theme park/zoo. What could possibly go wrong?
Warning: spoilers ahead!
John Hammond recruits palaeontologist Dr. Alan Grant and paleobotanist Dr. Ellie Sattler to "sign off" on his new "biological preserve" called Jurassic Park so he can proceed with opening it to the public. He flies them to the park, situated on Isla Nublar, 120 miles west of Costa Rica. On the ride, they meet mathematician Ian Malcolm, who subscribes to the chaos theory and has also been invited to inspect the park. When Hammond reveals that he's been cloning dinosaurs using blood taken from prehistoric mosquitoes trapped in amber, Ian warns of the dangers, and Grant and Sattler agree to be wary. Their fears come to fruition when a tropical storm strikes, sending most of the park workers home, and a rogue employee turns off the electrified fences in an effort to steal dinosaur embryos (He's killed by a dinosaur in the process.). With the dinosaurs set free, a Tyrannosaurus attacks, and Grant and Hammond's grandchildren Lex and Tim are separated and forced to spend the night in the wilderness. While in the wild, Grant finds dinosaur eggs, even though the dinosaurs in the park were designed to be all female to prevent reproduction, proving Ian's point that nature always finds a way to triumph over man's scientific meddling. Grant and the kids find their way back to the main facility, where Sattler and the others have managed to reboot the system and re-electrify the fences. However, a couple of velociraptors sneak into the building and surround Grant, Sattler and the kids. They are about to pounce when the Tyrannosaurus appears and kills the raptors, allowing Hammond and Ian to drive up and whisk the others away in a jeep. They all fly off the island, Hammond finally agreeing that the park was a bad idea.
Four years after the events of the first film, Hammond's weaselly nephew Peter Ludlow, citing all the money lost on the abandoned Jurassic Park endeavor, takes control of his uncle's genetic engineering company InGen. His plan is to remove the dinosaurs on Site B -- the now-abandoned Isla Sorna, where the animals were bred and raised before being transported to Isla Nublar -- and bring them back to the US to exploit to make up for the financial losses. Hammond, a "born-again naturalist," wants to keep the dinos free and safe, so he drafts a team -- including Ian Malcolm, who's been discredited academically after his published account of the events at Jurassic Park were denied by InGen and who joins the Site B effort only after Hammond informs him his girlfriend, paleontologist Sarah Harding, has already gone to the island -- to document the creatures' existence in order to gain public support for keeping them free. Soon after Ian's team arrives, however, InGen sends in a hunting party that begins capturing dinosaurs. Sarah and photographer Nick Van Owen secretly free the animals but are caught by the hunters, led by Roland Tembo, who desperately wants to bag a Tyrannosaurus. When a pair of T-rexes destroy the groups' communication and vehicles, they trek to the dangerous interior of the island to signal for help. Along the way, the T-rexes and a pack of velociraptors kill most of the hunters, but Tembo is able to tranquilize the male T-rex. Help arrives and whisks away Ian, Nick, Sarah and Ian's stowaway daughter Kelly in a helicopter, while a freighter picks up the unconscious male T-rex for transport to the US. On the mainland, Ludlow arranges a press conference to announce the dinosaur's arrival, but on the trip, it awakens and kills everyone on board, causing the ship to crash into the pier and freeing the beast. The T-rex proceeds to go all King Kong in San Diego until Ian and Sarah lure it back to the ship with the baby, who kills Ludlow in the process. They tranquilize the dino and ship it back to Isla Sorna, which is later declared to be a nature preserve.
Some time after the events of the second film, Dr. Alan Grant seeks to distance himself from the events in Jurassic Park, but when divorced couple Paul and Amanda Kirby offer him (and his assistant Billy) a large sum of money to be their guide as they fly over Isla Sorna, he agrees, needing the money fund his research. However, when the Kirbys' private plane arrives at the island, they reveal their true intention: to find their son Eric, who disappeared eight weeks prior after a parasailing expedition off the coast went awry, sending him floating off into the interior of the island. Against Alan's wishes, the plane lands and then proceeds to be disabled by a Spinosaurus, which kills the mercenaries the Kirbys hired to protect the group. They eventually find Eric, but along the way, Billy, seeking to make a buck, steals some raptor eggs, making the group a target. He redeems himself by saving Eric after they unknowingly venture into a giant aviary and a Pteranodon swoops in and takes the boy to feed its young. Assuming Billy is dead after the rescue, the others find a boat and escape, only to be attacked again by a Spinosaurus. Grant manages to call ex-colleague/ex-girlfriend Dr. Ellie Sattler on a satellite phone as the boat sinks. He then fires a flare to set the water around the dinosaur on fire, scaring it away. On shore, Grant and the Kirbys are surrounded by a pack of raptors who hold off on killing them because they have the eggs. As Amanda hands over the eggs, Grant blows through a model of a raptor larynx that Billy had made back home, keeping them at bay with vocal communication. Between that sound and the sound of an approaching helicopter, the raptors take the eggs and flee, and the group runs into the arms of a military battalion summoned by Sattler. On the helicopter, they find Billy, injured but alive, and everyone flies away to safety.
Despite three catastrophic encounters between humans and cloned dinosaurs in the first three films, Jurassic World picks up 22 years after the events of Jurassic Park with a fully functional dino theme park, Jurassic World, up and running on Isla Nublar. It's been in operation for 10 years without incident, and the public is so comfortable with the idea of roaming with dinosaurs that the park, owned by billionaire Simon Masrani, has decided to up the ante by splicing together a hybrid behemoth called the Indominus rex. Blissfully ignorant, Masrani is unaware that head geneticist Dr. Henry Wu has given the new dino abilities like camouflage and the ability to avoid heat detection, so of course, it escapes. Luckily, its pen is far enough from visitors that the workers are able to herd them near the park entrance. Unfortunately, Indominus is headed straight for the entrance, killing every other animal in its path. Even more unfortunately for park manager Claire Dearing, this is the day her nephews Zach and Gray have decided to visit, and despite the evacuation order, they decide to ditch their chaperone and head into the wilderness. Narrowly escaping Indominus, they manage to make their way to the park entrance, no thanks to Claire or raptor trainer Owen Grady, whom she recruited to help find the boys. Masran is killed when Indominus terrorizes the park aviary, so InGen security chief Vic Hoskins -- who's been trying to convince Owen of the raptors' military potential -- assumes control, forcing Owen to lead the raptors on a hunt for Indominus. After Indominus kills most of the raptors and traps Owen and the boys, Claire decides to free the park's Tyrannosaurus rex, leading to a clash of the titans. As Indominus is about to kill the T-rex, the last surviving raptor intercedes, distracting the hybrid enough for T-rex to get the upper hand and force Indominus toward the water tank holding a Mosasaurus, which emerges and pulls it into the depths, killing it. The tourists are evacuated the next day, and the park, with a T-rex, raptor and who knows what else roaming free, will presumably close for a considerable amount of time -- if not permanently.More »
Warning: spoilers ahead!
1. Jurassic Park (1993)
John Hammond recruits palaeontologist Dr. Alan Grant and paleobotanist Dr. Ellie Sattler to "sign off" on his new "biological preserve" called Jurassic Park so he can proceed with opening it to the public. He flies them to the park, situated on Isla Nublar, 120 miles west of Costa Rica. On the ride, they meet mathematician Ian Malcolm, who subscribes to the chaos theory and has also been invited to inspect the park. When Hammond reveals that he's been cloning dinosaurs using blood taken from prehistoric mosquitoes trapped in amber, Ian warns of the dangers, and Grant and Sattler agree to be wary. Their fears come to fruition when a tropical storm strikes, sending most of the park workers home, and a rogue employee turns off the electrified fences in an effort to steal dinosaur embryos (He's killed by a dinosaur in the process.). With the dinosaurs set free, a Tyrannosaurus attacks, and Grant and Hammond's grandchildren Lex and Tim are separated and forced to spend the night in the wilderness. While in the wild, Grant finds dinosaur eggs, even though the dinosaurs in the park were designed to be all female to prevent reproduction, proving Ian's point that nature always finds a way to triumph over man's scientific meddling. Grant and the kids find their way back to the main facility, where Sattler and the others have managed to reboot the system and re-electrify the fences. However, a couple of velociraptors sneak into the building and surround Grant, Sattler and the kids. They are about to pounce when the Tyrannosaurus appears and kills the raptors, allowing Hammond and Ian to drive up and whisk the others away in a jeep. They all fly off the island, Hammond finally agreeing that the park was a bad idea.
2. The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
Four years after the events of the first film, Hammond's weaselly nephew Peter Ludlow, citing all the money lost on the abandoned Jurassic Park endeavor, takes control of his uncle's genetic engineering company InGen. His plan is to remove the dinosaurs on Site B -- the now-abandoned Isla Sorna, where the animals were bred and raised before being transported to Isla Nublar -- and bring them back to the US to exploit to make up for the financial losses. Hammond, a "born-again naturalist," wants to keep the dinos free and safe, so he drafts a team -- including Ian Malcolm, who's been discredited academically after his published account of the events at Jurassic Park were denied by InGen and who joins the Site B effort only after Hammond informs him his girlfriend, paleontologist Sarah Harding, has already gone to the island -- to document the creatures' existence in order to gain public support for keeping them free. Soon after Ian's team arrives, however, InGen sends in a hunting party that begins capturing dinosaurs. Sarah and photographer Nick Van Owen secretly free the animals but are caught by the hunters, led by Roland Tembo, who desperately wants to bag a Tyrannosaurus. When a pair of T-rexes destroy the groups' communication and vehicles, they trek to the dangerous interior of the island to signal for help. Along the way, the T-rexes and a pack of velociraptors kill most of the hunters, but Tembo is able to tranquilize the male T-rex. Help arrives and whisks away Ian, Nick, Sarah and Ian's stowaway daughter Kelly in a helicopter, while a freighter picks up the unconscious male T-rex for transport to the US. On the mainland, Ludlow arranges a press conference to announce the dinosaur's arrival, but on the trip, it awakens and kills everyone on board, causing the ship to crash into the pier and freeing the beast. The T-rex proceeds to go all King Kong in San Diego until Ian and Sarah lure it back to the ship with the baby, who kills Ludlow in the process. They tranquilize the dino and ship it back to Isla Sorna, which is later declared to be a nature preserve.
3. Jurassic Park III (2001)
Some time after the events of the second film, Dr. Alan Grant seeks to distance himself from the events in Jurassic Park, but when divorced couple Paul and Amanda Kirby offer him (and his assistant Billy) a large sum of money to be their guide as they fly over Isla Sorna, he agrees, needing the money fund his research. However, when the Kirbys' private plane arrives at the island, they reveal their true intention: to find their son Eric, who disappeared eight weeks prior after a parasailing expedition off the coast went awry, sending him floating off into the interior of the island. Against Alan's wishes, the plane lands and then proceeds to be disabled by a Spinosaurus, which kills the mercenaries the Kirbys hired to protect the group. They eventually find Eric, but along the way, Billy, seeking to make a buck, steals some raptor eggs, making the group a target. He redeems himself by saving Eric after they unknowingly venture into a giant aviary and a Pteranodon swoops in and takes the boy to feed its young. Assuming Billy is dead after the rescue, the others find a boat and escape, only to be attacked again by a Spinosaurus. Grant manages to call ex-colleague/ex-girlfriend Dr. Ellie Sattler on a satellite phone as the boat sinks. He then fires a flare to set the water around the dinosaur on fire, scaring it away. On shore, Grant and the Kirbys are surrounded by a pack of raptors who hold off on killing them because they have the eggs. As Amanda hands over the eggs, Grant blows through a model of a raptor larynx that Billy had made back home, keeping them at bay with vocal communication. Between that sound and the sound of an approaching helicopter, the raptors take the eggs and flee, and the group runs into the arms of a military battalion summoned by Sattler. On the helicopter, they find Billy, injured but alive, and everyone flies away to safety.
4. Jurassic World (2015)
Despite three catastrophic encounters between humans and cloned dinosaurs in the first three films, Jurassic World picks up 22 years after the events of Jurassic Park with a fully functional dino theme park, Jurassic World, up and running on Isla Nublar. It's been in operation for 10 years without incident, and the public is so comfortable with the idea of roaming with dinosaurs that the park, owned by billionaire Simon Masrani, has decided to up the ante by splicing together a hybrid behemoth called the Indominus rex. Blissfully ignorant, Masrani is unaware that head geneticist Dr. Henry Wu has given the new dino abilities like camouflage and the ability to avoid heat detection, so of course, it escapes. Luckily, its pen is far enough from visitors that the workers are able to herd them near the park entrance. Unfortunately, Indominus is headed straight for the entrance, killing every other animal in its path. Even more unfortunately for park manager Claire Dearing, this is the day her nephews Zach and Gray have decided to visit, and despite the evacuation order, they decide to ditch their chaperone and head into the wilderness. Narrowly escaping Indominus, they manage to make their way to the park entrance, no thanks to Claire or raptor trainer Owen Grady, whom she recruited to help find the boys. Masran is killed when Indominus terrorizes the park aviary, so InGen security chief Vic Hoskins -- who's been trying to convince Owen of the raptors' military potential -- assumes control, forcing Owen to lead the raptors on a hunt for Indominus. After Indominus kills most of the raptors and traps Owen and the boys, Claire decides to free the park's Tyrannosaurus rex, leading to a clash of the titans. As Indominus is about to kill the T-rex, the last surviving raptor intercedes, distracting the hybrid enough for T-rex to get the upper hand and force Indominus toward the water tank holding a Mosasaurus, which emerges and pulls it into the depths, killing it. The tourists are evacuated the next day, and the park, with a T-rex, raptor and who knows what else roaming free, will presumably close for a considerable amount of time -- if not permanently.More »
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