10 Film Characters Who Suffered Horrendous Fates In Other Media

Jurassic Park was Micahel Chrichton's biggest success, however the novel, like Spielberg's Jaws, is decidedly weaker than the film. The author is more focused on the book's themes to stop and make interesting characters. And while Ian Malcolm is the same eccentric, Chaos Theory-spouting mathematician he was in the film, he spends most of the book ranting in pain.

After the T-Rex attack, he just lays on a table the rest of the novel, drifting in and out of consciousness and going off on long, morphine-induced rants.

Then, after hearing him regurgitate the novel's themes for 400-some pages, we are told he died between chapters. John Hammond, too, the park's founder, is killed by a flock of compsognathus.

Chrichton and screenwriter David Koepp hadn't prepared for Jeff Goldblum, who walked on the set and owned the rest of the movie. They also didn't count on Sir Richard Attenborough being so likeable, allowing him to live as well.

But knowing the studio would want a sequel to adapt, Chrichton set to work on The Lost World, which he opens with the ultimate author faux pas: "Though I was presumed dead..."

Spielberg largely ignored much of Chrichton's sequel, ironic considering it was written precisely to be adapted, but he retained Jeff Goldblum, getting the better end of the deal.