Jurassic Park Recap: What To Remember Before Jurassic World Dominion

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Before Jurassic World: Dominion concludes the dinosaur blockbuster saga, here are the major things to remember from the Jurassic Park and Jurassic World movies. Jurassic Park was created by the late author Michael Crichton, whose bestselling 1990 technothriller about genetically engineered dinosaurs populating a theme park was adapted into a Hollywood blockbuster by Steven Spielberg. The monumental success of Jurassic Park spawned five sequels, a canonical animated series on Netflix, Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous, several video game adaptations, theme park rides, and endless merchandise.

Spielberg's original Jurassic Park changed much about Crichton's original novel and, starting with the 1997 sequel, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, all of the movies were set in Spielberg's movie continuity instead of Crichton's. In fact, Spielberg's The Lost World bears little resemblance to the similarly-titled sequel novel Crichton penned before his death. Along with the iconic dinosaurs, specifically the Tyrannosaurus Rex and the Velociraptors, who have factored into every film,Jurassic Park introduced four primary characters who would go on to impact the entireJurassic saga: John Hammond (Richard Attenborough), the late CEO of InGen and creator of Jurassic Park, paleontologist Dr. Alan Grant (Sam Neill), paleobotanist Dr. Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern), and mathematician Dr. Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum). Although all three only teamed up once in Jurassic Park (prior to Jurassic World: Dominion reuniting the trio), Malcolm and Grant alternated as the lead protagonists of The Lost World and 2001's Jurassic Park III, with Sattler cameoing in the latter film.

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