Before he started writing, Michael Clayton had conceived a script to tell the story of graduate students recreating dinosaurs. His interest in dinosaurs and clones also became strong, so he decided to create a novel "Jurassic Park". In October 1989, during the discussion with Clayton about the script of "Emergency Room Story", Steven Spielberg learned about the unpublished "Jurassic Park". At that time, Clayton not only asked the publisher to pay The author's remuneration of 1.5 million US dollars, and also proposed a proportional dividend. In order to obtain the right to film the adaptation of the novel, Warner Bros., Tim Burton, Sony Pictures, Richard Downer, 20th Century Fox and Joe Dante competed to shoot. In May 1990, Universal Pictures became the final The winner, in addition, in order to allow Clayton to adapt the script himself, Universal Pictures paid an additional $500,000.
During the filming of Captain Hook by Spielberg, Clayton completed the script of the film. Due to the length of the novel, Clayton only selected 10-20% of the content, and some scenes had to be budgeted and feasible. Give up due to sexual factors. Spielberg wanted to make "Schindler's List" immediately after finishing "Captain Hook," but Sid Schieenberg, president of Music Corporation of America, asked Spielberg to film "Schindler's List" first. "Jurassic Park", because Universal Pictures was an American music company at the time, and Schinberg knew that Spielberg, who directed "Schindler's List", would no longer be interested in "Jurassic Park" .
In order to truly present the behemoths of ancient times in the film, Spielberg asked Stan Winston and Phil Tippe to make electronic dinosaurs and dynamic dinosaurs in the distant view respectively. Paleontologist Jack Horner is responsible for overseeing the design of dinosaurs so as to turn dinosaurs into animals rather than monsters. In October 1991, Maria Scouch Marmo took over to rewrite the script, and then David Kepp took over as the screenwriter, who was responsible for revising Marmer's draft and incorporating Spielberg's ideas into the script. Spielberg also removed the minor plot of the original Composaurus escaping to the mainland to attack young children, which later appeared in the opening of "The Lost World: Jurassic Park Sequel".
After 25 weeks of pre-production, "Jurassic Park" was filmed in Kauai, Hawaii on August 24, 1992. The crew spent three weeks on the island to shoot a large number of daytime scenes. On September 11, To avoid Hurricane Iniki passing through Kauai, all the cast and crew stopped work for a day, and some of the storm scenes in the film are from real hurricane scenes. After completing the chasing scene of a chicken and dragon on Oahu, the crew returned to the continental United States to continue filming. The scene of the Tyrannosaurus attacking the tour bus was from Studio 16 of the Warner Bros. Studio, and the scene of the Raptor dragon flying into the kitchen. From Studio 24 of Universal Studios. On November 30, 1992, the filming was finished 12 days ahead of schedule, and the editor Michael Kahn immediately took over, so that Spielberg could start preparing for the production of "Schindler's List."
In order to vigorously promote and market the film, Universal Pictures has spent US$65 million and signed agreements with 100 companies to manufacture and sell 1,000 products, including three "Jurassic Park" video games, a toy production line and targeted Novels written by young readers, etc. The film premiered at the National Building Museum in Washington on June 9, 1993. The box office in the first week reached 81.7 million U.S. dollars. In the end, the global box office of the film exceeded 900 million U.S. dollars, becoming the most successful commercial film at the time, only Spear. Berg made a profit of 250 million, a record that was not broken by "Titanic" until 5 years later.
Steven Spielberg said that he had conceived its 3D scene when shooting this film, but due to technical limitations at the time, it was not until after watching the Titanic was converted to 3D that he decided that it might be time to let him. Dinosaurs also "broke out of the big screen." He recalled filming on a small island in Hawaii, but unfortunately encountered a storm: "Many of the images of the storm in the forest that the audience saw in the film were taken from real shots. Although the effect is good, we will do it after the filming. I found that I was trapped in the storm and could not leave, and some equipment was damaged. It was not until my producer Kathleen Kennedy came to rescue him in the rain and brought money, equipment and food. Fortunately no one was rescued. Hurt."
