10 Alternate Scenes That Completely Change Famous Movies

Early on in Jurassic Park there's a scene in which the group encounter a triceratops that has come down with a mystery illness.

You'd be forgiven for forgetting all about it, what with the ensuing tyrannosauruses and shirtless Jeff Goldblums and apparently the screenwriters did to because we never find out what was making the dinosaur ill.

The scene was actually meant to kick off an entire subplot that got cut from the movie. The investigation into the illness would lead to Sam Neil's Dr. Alan Grant discovering that the dinosaurs of Jurassic Park weren't really prehistoric creatures.

Grant was supposed to discover that the Park's scientists hadn't been able to fully extract the dinosaur DNA from the ancient mosquitoes and so had filled in the gaps by frankensteining them together with frog genes. The results were creatures that looked like dinosaurs but had incredibly short lifespans.

The park's director John Hammond would have known about the whole thing, not caring that his creations lived short and painful lives as long as Jurassic Park stayed open. It's a revelation that would have transformed Richard Attenborough's character from a kind but misguided scientist into a cold and calculating villain.