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Jeff Goldblum Recalls That Ian Malcolm Was Almost Cut from ‘Jurassic Park’?!
It’s impossible to imagine Jurassic Park without Jeff Goldblum‘s Ian Malcolm, a character so beloved that he’s been brought back for this year’s Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. But in a chat with Vanity Fair this week, wherein he broke down his career on a movie-by-movie basis, Goldblum revealed that Malcolm was almost cut from the script!
“I got a call… ‘Steven Spielberg wants to meet you… read the book first’… [so I] read that Michael Crichton book [and thought] ‘Ian Malcolm… wow… smart, funny, interesting character’… [Spielberg] was so nice,” Goldblum recalled. “He said, ‘Ya know, there’s a sort of movement afoot with our little committee here, as we’re rewriting another version of the script, to have that part removed from the script. So since we’ve had this meeting, there’s this little wrinkle that may render this moot.’ I kinda said… I felt like I had to advocate for my inclusion.”
Goldblum continued, “[Spielberg said] ‘The people want to make that character sort of melded into the Alan Grant character.’ Anyway, it turned out that I got to be in it.”
Malcolm of course went on to be the primary protagonist in Spielberg’s The Lost World: Jurassic Park II, proving just how integral Goldblum’s inclusion was to the series.
After pulling in $28 million at the worldwide box office this month, director (and star) Dev Patel’s critically acclaimed action-thriller Monkey Man is now available to watch at home.
You can rent Monkey Man for $19.99 or digitally purchase the film for $24.99!
Monkey Man is currently 88% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, with Bloody Disgusting’s head critic Meagan Navarro awarding the film 4.5/5 stars in her review out of SXSW back in March.
Meagan raves, “While the violence onscreen is palpable and painful, it’s not just the exquisite fight choreography and thrilling action set pieces that set Monkey Man apart but also its political consciousness, unique narrative structure, and myth-making scale.”
“While Monkey Man pays tribute to all of the action genre’s greats, from the Indonesian action classics to Korean revenge cinema and even a John Wick joke or two, Dev Patel’s cultural spin and unique narrative structure leave behind all influences in the dust for new terrain,” Meagan’s review continues.
She adds, “Monkey Man presents Dev Patel as a new action hero, a tenacious underdog with a penetrating stare who bites, bludgeons, and stabs his way through bodies to gloriously bloody excess. More excitingly, the film introduces Patel as a strong visionary right out of the gate.”
Inspired by the legend of Hanuman, Monkey Man stars Patel as Kid, an anonymous young man who ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club where, night after night, wearing a gorilla mask, he is beaten bloody by more popular fighters for cash. After years of suppressed rage, Kid discovers a way to infiltrate the enclave of the city’s sinister elite. As his childhood trauma boils over, his mysteriously scarred hands unleash an explosive campaign of retribution to settle the score with the men who took everything from him.
Monkey Man is produced by Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions.
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