20 Mind-Blowing Facts About The Jurassic Park Franchise
13. The T. Rex Went Rogue During Filming
Spielberg did get his wish to some extent via several large-scale animatronics designed by Stan Winston, the piece de resistance undoubtedly being the gargantuan Tyrannosaurus rex that became the movies focal point. However, while Winston has described filming the sequence in which the T. rex is introduced and attacks the unsuspecting visitors as the most amazing shoot of my entire career, it would also prove to be a logistical nightmare. The special effects doyen counselled Spielberg at length about the potential ramifications of drenching the 9,000-pound, 40-feet-long contraption with the gallons of water required to create the rain-soaked scene the director had in mind. Spielberg gambled and the end result was spectacular, but the finely calibrated T. rex started having the shakes and the crew spent countless hours using towels and blow-dryers to revive the key prop. As producer Kathleen Kennedy recalled:
The T. rex went into the heebie-jeebies sometimes. Scared the crap out of us. We'd be, like, eating lunch, and all of a sudden a T. rex would come alive. At first we didn't know what was happening, and then we realised it was the rain. You'd hear people start screaming.
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