It's hard to believe that audiences are just two months away from the release of Jurassic World. It's been 22 years since Steven Spielberg's original classic launched and 14 years since the last instalment; as such, anticipation is high to see a new park open for business and the chaos the arrival of a new hybrid dinosaur - the Indominus Rex - is set to bring with it. As seen in a number of trailers and teasers being sprinkled along the road leading to the film's release, park personnel and tourists alike are set to be new tallies on the series' scoreboard of casualties. Across the original trilogy, the loss of human life was often infrequent, in large part due to the slim number of people on either of the films' two islands compared to the 20,000+ said to be present during Indominus' rampage (San Diego notwithstanding). In most cases, deaths presented in the films were reserved for characters deserving of karmic justice for traits like greed and cowardice or for having the hubris to challenge nature, with only a few innocent exceptions. Though the trilogy had a relatively low number of human casualties, that fact helped ensure that - when a character death actually happened - it was memorable more often than not. So before the Indominus Rex stomps into theaters and audiences get to witness tourists being carried away by Pteranodons this June, let's take a look back and stack up the series' losses from the forgettable to the ones fans still talk about today...
Writer, film enthusiast, part-time gamer and watcher of (mostly) good television located on the fringe of Los Angeles, who now has his own website at www.highdefgeoff.com!
