
It makes more extensive use of computer-generated imagery to depict the dinosaurs, along with life-sized animatronics. The Lost World 's plot and imagery is substantially darker than Jurassic Park. Filming took place from September to December 1996, primarily in California, with a shoot in Kauai, Hawaii, where the first film was shot. Following the book's publication in 1995, production began on a film sequel.


Four years after the original film, John Hammond ( Richard Attenborough) sends a team, led by Malcolm, to Isla Sorna, the second island Hammond's company InGen used to make the dinosaurs, to study the animals while coming into conflict with a team led by InGen to bring some of the dinosaurs back to the United States.Īfter the original novel's release and the first film's success, fans pressured Crichton for a sequel. The film stars Jeff Goldblum, returning as the eccentric chaos theorist and mathematician Ian Malcolm, as well as Julianne Moore, Pete Postlethwaite, Arliss Howard, Vince Vaughn, and Vanessa Lee Chester. A sequel to 1993's Jurassic Park and loosely based on Michael Crichton's 1995 novel The Lost World, the film was directed by Steven Spielberg and written by David Koepp. It is the second installment in the Jurassic Park franchise and the second film in the Jurassic Park trilogy. The Lost World: Jurassic Park is a 1997 American science fiction action film.
