The lost world jurassic park tagline

We know the original
King Kong
movie exists in the
Jurassic Park
universe, as evidenced by the sardonic comment made by Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) in the first movie, so why would anyone think bringing a large and uncontrollable beast to the mainland, least of all a heavily populated city, is even a remotely good idea?

Well, human arrogance, greed, and a blatant lack of common sense — particularly on the part of John Hammond's nephew, Peter Ludlow (Arliss Howard) — are major contributing factors. Then there's the behind-the-scenes explanation: Director Steven Spielberg thought the visual of a T. rex rampaging through the streets of San Diego would look really cool onscreen, and he was right. What you might not know, is that
The Lost World
's third act set piece wasn't added to the script until six weeks before filming began.

Why the T. rex's
Lost World
rampage in San Diego was a last minute addition

In
Jurassic Park: The Ultimate Visual History
, Spielberg reveals that he initially planned to helm a third movie in the franchise, which "was going to be about the dinosaurs getting loose in the world" —  à la what eventually happened in the
Jurassic World
movies.

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“Something Has Survived”-- or so said the tagline for “The Lost World,” Steven Spielberg’s 1997 follow-up to his beloved “Jurassic Park."

While that “something” turned out to be a bunch of dinosaurs living on a second dino-filled island (that no one ever bothered to mention in the first movie for some strange reason), it turns out that something else has also survived: the original promotional website for “The Lost World” is still online almost 20 years after its release, collecting whatever the internet equivalent of dust and cobwebs is.

If you simply go to www.lost-world.com you may see a fleeting glimpse of the original homepage before one of two things happens: 1) your computer will freeze, not unlike a mosquito trapped in amber, or 2) you’ll be quickly re-routed to the far shinier and more sophisticated website for “Jurassic World” which opens this week.

But…if you’re more interested in low-res .jpegs of Jeff Goldblum than high-def videos of Chris Pratt, you can access the vintage site by going here. If successful, you should see a map of Isla Sorna (which I believe is Spanish for “island of narrative convenience”), with vario



John Hammond
: Thank God for Site B.

Ian Malcom
: Site B?

John Hammond
: Isla Nublar was just the showroom, something for the tourists. Site B was the factory floor; that was on Isla Sorna, eighty miles from Nublar. We bred the animals there, and nurtured them for a few months and then moved them into the park.

Ian Malcom
: Really? I did not know that.

John Hammond
: Now, after the accident in the park, Hurricane Clarissa wiped out our facility on Site B; call it an act of God. We had to evacuate, of course, and the animals were released to mature on their own. "Life will find a way" as you once so eloquently put it. And by now, we have a complete ecological system on the island, with dozens of species living in their own social groups without fences, without boundaries, without constraining technology and for
four years
, I've tried to keep it safe from human interference.

Ian Malcolm
:
[stammering]
Well, that's right, that's right, hopefully you've kept this island quarantined and contained, but, er, I'm in shock about all this,I mean, that they're still alive. I mean, you bred them lysine-deficient. Shouldn't they have, er, kicked after seven days without supplementa

Jurassic Park 2 Answered Its Cryptic Tag Line in the First Movie


The
Jurassic Park
movies have always had the benefit of bringing dinosaurs to life as the perfect lure for audiences. Even after the sixth movie, seeing a T-Rex roar on the big screen never gets old. That said, with a franchise that has been around for decades, it's also gone through some of the strangest marketing eras of all time. This even included one of the oldest and most commonly used gimmicks -- the tagline.

Following the first
Jurassic Park
, sequel demand was at its highest, and the franchise delivered when Spielberg returned to direct
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
. The movie also saw the return of Ian Malcolm, who had died in Michael Crichton's novel and nearly died in the movie adaptation. But something about the marketing for the sequel was odd, as the posters often came with the tagline "Something Has Survived." Being that Ian was clearly not the something that surprisingly survived, it raised the question of what it meant, as only a few Velociraptors were killed in the first movie. In reality, the answer is well hidden within the original movie.

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