20 Things You Somehow Missed In Jurassic Park

7. One Death Was Inspired By The Godfather

Jurassic Park Godfather
Universal Pictures

Despite surviving - and being a far nicer character - in Michael Crighton's novel, Donald Gennaro meets Jurassic Park's grizzliest fate at the hands, and teeth, of the T-Rex.

It's not immediately obvious, but when he initially makes it into the toilet stall he begins to mutter a Hail Mary.

This was, according to actor Martin Ferrero, an idea he took from one of the final scenes of The Godfather: Part II, where Fredo mutters his own Hail Mary prayer prior to Neri killing him on Lake Tahoe.

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