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Video Uses Newly Unearthed Storyboards to Bring Unfilmed ‘Jurassic Park’ Scene to Life

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Jurassic Park was perfect. But did you ever wonder what *didn’t* make it into the film?

An adaptation of Michael Crichton’s same-named novel, released just three years prior, Jurassic Park will go down in history as one of the most-awe inspiring films ever made. With its groundbreaking special effects, Steven Spielberg’s dinosaur epic was pure movie magic in every sense of the term, blowing minds at the time and continuing to do so over 20 years later.

There are a handful of sequences from Jurassic Park that will forever be ingrained in my brain, but there’s one big one from the novel that didn’t make it into the film. In Crichton’s book, there’s an intense scene involving a lagoon and the T-Rex that Spielberg planned on filming but ultimately scrapped; we will never see it, but we now have a good idea what it would’ve been like.

Fan Derrick Davis, who runs the website Jurassic Time, recently won an auction for original Jurassic Park storyboards from artist Phil Tippett’s personal collection, and he’s just taken it upon himself to turn the storyboards for the infamously excised “T-Rex at the lagoon” sequence into a surprisingly intense video that imagines what that scene would’ve looked like in the film.

Davis explains:

Jurassic Park was a breathtaking film by Steven Spielberg; filled with spectacle, wonder, and imagination. Likewise, the novel and the adaptation process included many inventive ideas. This video presents one of the most famous ideas that didn’t make it into the film: “Tyrannosaurus Rex At The Lagoon”. Following closely to the tense sequence from the novel, the filmmakers also revised it with their own ideas, more than once. This version appears to be the last of the revisions, before it was scrapped entirely; along with the rest of the “river adventure” that was inspired and adapted into the classic Universal Studios attractions.

This video uses the official original storyboards that were contained in Phil Tippett’s Early Sequence Storyboard Binder, from his own collection. They have never been publicly seen before. This video was made to dramatize the sequence with original music by Derrick Davis and Mikhail Cucuk, inspired by the John Williams Jurassic Park themes. It is made for entertainment and educational purposes only. Amblin Entertainment and Universal Pictures own any copyrights to the material. See video for full credits of this production.

This is INCREDIBLY cool. Check out the video below!

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Matilda Firth Joins the Cast of Director Leigh Whannell’s ‘Wolf Man’ Movie

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Pictured: Matilda Firth in 'Christmas Carole'

Filming is underway on The Invisible Man director Leigh Whannell’s Wolf Man for Universal and Blumhouse, which will be howling its way into theaters on January 17, 2025.

Deadline reports that Matilda Firth (Disenchanted) is the latest actor to sign on, joining Christopher Abbott (Poor Things),  Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel), and Sam Jaeger.

The project will mark Whannell’s second monster movie and fourth directing collaboration with Blumhouse Productions (The Invisible Man, Upgrade, Insidious: Chapter 3).

Wolf Man stars Christopher Abbott as a man whose family is being terrorized by a lethal predator.

Writers include Whannell & Corbett Tuck as well as Lauren Schuker Blum & Rebecca Angelo.

Jason Blum is producing the film. Ryan Gosling, Ken Kao, Bea Sequeira, Mel Turner and Whannell are executive producers. Wolf Man is a Blumhouse and Motel Movies production.

In the wake of the failed Dark Universe, Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man has been the only real success story for the Universal Monsters brand, which has been struggling with recent box office flops including the comedic Renfield and period horror movie The Last Voyage of the Demeter. Giving him the keys to the castle once more seems like a wise idea, to say the least.

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