The True Story Behind How ‘Jurassic Park’ Almost Didn’t Happen

Ray Arnold (Samuel L.

Jackson) delivers some bad news to his boss, that the park’s outgoing tour, eagerly anticipating a preview of real dinos, has to be cut short.

A tropical storm is brewing, with a trajectory that will have it make a direct hit on their island, and whoever’s out unprotected won’t be safe from wind or flooding.

Other than insider sabotage, the in-movie storm doesn’t help when the park goes dark, turning a wildlife amusement park into a Mesozoic Era death trap.

Behind the scenes, the movie’s theme of man vs.

nature would get a real life eye-opener, when the crew of Jurassic Park (1993) weren’t facing off against dinosaur animatronics, but the fury of a monstrous hurricane.

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