Malcolm visits the original park founder, John Hammond, who is now ill in bed. The film opens with a wealthy family making a stop on a remote island where their daughter is attacked by a clutch of small carnivorous dinosaurs. Since returning home from the events of the first film, he has published about his experiences but no one seems to believe him. Ian Malcolm (reprised by Jeff Goldblum), a fan favorite character from the original. The title for the novel and the book was of course taken from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World. Nevertheless the result was a massively hyped sequel, The Lost World: Jurassic Park –a film which diverges considerably from the Crichton novel (notably in the novel a disease is discovered among the dinosaurs causing them to go extinct, but this plot point was removed entirely in the film). After the extraordinary success of the original Jurassic Park movie in 1993, there was mounting studio and fan pressure to create a sequel, despite the fact that Spielberg found himself wholly burnt out after directing both Jurassic Park and Schindler’s List back to back, and also the fact that Michael Crichton was wary about writing a sequel (he had never written a sequel to any of his novels before).
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