20 Things You Somehow Missed In The Lost World: Jurassic Park
11. The Scenes Taken From The Original Jurassic Park Novel
For those who had already taken in the original source material for Spielberg's initial Jurassic Park adventure coming into this follow-up, a few of The Lost World's more chilling scenes most definitely must've felt a tad familiar.
When it came time to pen the script for this sequel, David Koepp was only too happy to take inspiration from Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park novel, with the unsettling waterfall moment of a T-Rex pinning the feature players against a wall with its tongue and the opening scene depicting a small child being bitten by a Procompsognathus both being lifted from that influential book.
Another Procompsognathus attack in the form of Dieter's swarming death in the sequel was also inspired by John Hammond's fateful end in that very same original novel, an act that was obviously left out of the Jurassic Park cinematic adaptation.