Jurassic Park (film)
Jurassic Park is a 1993 science fiction film directed by Steven Spielberg, based on the novel of the same name by Michael Crichton. The film centers on the island of Isla Nublar, where scientists have created an amusement park of cloned dinosaurs. John Hammond (Richard Attenborough) invites a group of scientists, played by Sam Neill, Jeff Goldblum and Laura Dern, to visit a park. Sabotage sets the dinosaurs on the loose, and technicians and visitors attempt to escape the island.
Development of the film began before the novel
was even published, and Crichton was hired to contribute to a script that cut
much of its story. Spielberg hired Stan Winston Studios's puppets and worked with
Industrial Light and Magic to develop cutting-edge computer-generated imagery
to portray the dinosaurs. Jurassic Park was well received by critics, who praised
the special effects, but found the film mediocre in other aspects. During its
release, the film grossed more than $914 million, becoming the most successful
film yet released, and it is currently the tenth-highest grossing feature film,
significantly inspiring a new breed of films that primarily used CGI for special
effects. Jurassic Park was the first film in the Jurassic Park franchise, followed
by The Lost World: Jurassic Park in 1997 and by Jurassic Park III in 2001, with
Jurassic Park IV in development.
The Tyrannosaurus escapes from her paddock.Malcolm and Sattler
are concerned, but Grant remains neutral. They meet Hammond's grandchildren, Alexis
and Tim Murphy, and go on a vehicular tour of the park. Ellie leaves the tour
to take care of a sick Triceratops. A tropical storm hits the island and most
InGen employees leave, except for Hammond, game warden Robert Muldoon, chief engineer
Ray Arnold, and lead computer programmer Dennis Nedry. Commissioned by a rival
businessman, Nedry takes an opportunity to shut down the park's security system
so he can steal dinosaur embryos and deliver them to an auxiliary dock. Soon,
a Tyrannosaurus breaks through the electric fence surrounding its pen, killing
Gennaro, wounding Malcolm, and then attacking Tim and Lex hiding in the car. The
children and Grant only narrowly avoid being killed and eaten. Meanwhile, Ellie
and Muldoon rescue Malcolm and are almost caught by the T. rex during an intense
chase. Nedry crashes his car and after trying to fix it is killed by a Dilophosaurus.
Grant, Tim, and Lex spend the night in a tree and while hiking to safety the next
morning discover some of the dinosaurs are actually breeding. Grant realizes that
the frog DNA is responsible, as some species of frog are known to spontaneously
change gender in a single-sex environment.
A pair of Velociraptor enter
the kitchen.Arnold tries to hack Nedry’s computer to turn the power back
on and fails, so he does a full system restart, which requires the circuit breakers
to be manually reset from the utility shed. When he fails to return, Ellie and
Muldoon follow and discover the Raptors have escaped. Muldoon tells Ellie to go
to the utility shed herself and turn the power back on while he hunts the Raptors
that have been stalking them. Muldoon is attacked and killed by a lurking Raptor
while Ellie escapes from another after discovering Arnold's remains. After managing
to turn on the power and escaping the Raptor, she meets up with Grant. They both
go back to Malcolm and Hammond, and Grant grabs a shotgun after learning that
two Raptors have escaped their pen and a third has been contained. Lex and Tim
narrowly escape two of the Raptors in the kitchen, and Lex is finally able to
restore the Park's computer systems in order to call Hammond to request a helicopter
rescue of the survivors. Grant and Ellie hold off a Raptor trying to open the
door to the computer room, until the power is restored and the electromagnetic
locks begin working. With the door secure, the team climbs up into the ceiling
crawlspace and arrive at the Visitors Center skeleton display. After a scuffle
on top of the fossil exhibits where the Raptors block their escape route, help
comes from an unlikely source when the Tyrannosaurus suddenly appears and kills
both Raptors; saving Grant, Ellie, Lex and Tim in the process. Grant, Ellie, Lex
and Tim climb into Hammond and Malcolm's jeep and leave. Grant says he will not
endorse the park, a choice with which Hammond concurs. Flying away in the helicopter,
the children fall asleep beside Grant, who contemplatively watches the birds flying
nearby, the surviving relatives of the dinosaurs they escaped.
Dr.
Alan Grant
Dr. Alan Grant is one of the main characters in Michael Crichton's novel and in the films Jurassic Park and Jurassic Park III. In the novel, Grant is described as a wide chested, bearded man that has a strong affinity with children, specially due to their liking for dinosaurs. Grant is said to be one of the world's most renowned paleontologists, his speciality being the hadrosaurs, or duck billed dinosaurs such as Maiasaura. He is mentioned only once in the sequel novel The Lost World by Richard Levine, who claims he had proposed a ridiculous theory that the Tyrannosaurus rex could not function in rainy climates.
In the movies, he was played by Sam Neill. The movie's Dr. Grant does not like children at all and seems to be a rather introvert person. He is never said to be a widower, and instead, he seems to have a very close relationship to his coworker, paleobotanist Ellie Sattler. In the first movie, Grant is asked by John Hammond, the creator of Jurassic Park, to take a tour of Jurassic Park and endorse it, so that Hammond's investors will be more confident about the park. Grant agrees, not knowing that Hammond has managed to clone real dinosaurs. However, when the creatures escape and start killing people, Grant becomes stranded in the park with Hammond's grandchildren. Although this experience changes his mind about children, he decides not to endorse Jurassic Park, and so Hammond's project never becomes public. In the movie, Alan Grant is a specialist in Velociraptor, and he is among the many paleontologists that believe birds are descended from that kind of dinosaurs. In Jurassic Park III, Alan Grant is having trouble to finance his digging, and so he reluctantly agrees to join a wealthy couple for an aereal tour over Isla Sorna. Eventually they become stranded at the island once more, and Grant realizes, much to his dismay, that his theories about the extremely advanced intelligence on raptors were correct. Fortunately, he escapes the island. He is rumored to return in Jurassic Park IV, but Sam Neill has repeatedly stated that he was not asked to reprise his character. The character of Alan Grant is based mainly on paleontologists Jack Horner and Robert T. Bakker. He also has some elements similar to adventure hero Indiana Jones, such as the fact that his hat always returns to him (perhaps a parody to the earlier character).
Dr. Martin "Marty" Guitierrez
Appears
in: Jurassic Park (novel), The Lost World (novel)
A doctor from the United States who moved to Costa Rica to learn, he plays an expository role in both novels. He is Richard Levine's best, and perhaps only, friend. He did not appear in any of the three films produced.
Dr. John Hammond
Main article: John
Hammond (Jurassic Park character)
Appears in: Jurassic Park (novel and film),
The Lost World (film)
John Parker Hammond is the creator of Jurassic Park and founder of InGen. He is portrayed by Richard Attenborough in the films his character is in, and is loosely modeled after famed Scottish-American industrialist and dinosaur collector Andrew Carnegie. In the films, he appears as a sympathetic grandfather, but in the book he is depicted as an eccentric, polite CEO solely interested in profit and dinosaurs. In the novels, he is killed near the end of Jurassic Park and is mentioned briefly in the sequel. In the films, he survives in the first film, and is seen again in the second film. He was also briefly mentioned in the third film.
In the original novel, he survives until after the power has been turned back on, when he denies that his park has become a failure. Once all of the raptors are away from the lodge, he goes outside for a walk and hears a Tyrannosaurus roaring. Not knowing that it is just his grandchildren fooling around with the speakers, he jumps down a hill and breaks his ankle. Before he can climb up the hill, he is killed by a large group of Procompsognathus. This was reworked into The Lost World film adaptation, but with Dieter Stark replacing Hammond, and the Procompsognathus being regular Compsognathus.
Dr.
Ian Malcolm
Main article: Ian Malcolm (Jurassic Park)
Appears in: Jurassic
Park (novel and film), The Lost World (novel and film)
Dr. Ian Malcolm, alongside Dr. Grant, is another key figure in the Jurassic Park films and novels, He is a mathematician specializing in the study of the chaos theory and refers to himself as a "chaotician". Jeff Goldblum portrayed Malcolm in both the Jurassic Park and The Lost World: Jurassic Park film adaptations. Malcolm is John Hammond's primary critic in both the novel and film, accurately predicting the instability of Hammond's creation. Malcolm is seriously injured in the first book, and supposedly dies from his injuries. However, he returns in the sequel novel, The Lost World, alive but crippled, stating that his apparent death was a "gross exaggeration". He survives the film with a comparatively minor leg injury, and was returned with a minor limp for the film adaptation of The Lost World: Jurassic Park. In both the films and books, Malcolm is an eccentric character who dresses entirely in black, and is described as having the mannerisms of a rock star in the original Jurassic Park film adaptation by Hammond. After the events in the first film, he is sobered by his experiences there and returns as a much more moody, darker character in The Lost World. Acting as the protagonist in "The Lost World", Ian serves as Grant's opposite and rival.
Dr. Ellie Sattler
Appears in: Jurassic Park (novel and film), Jurassic Park
III
Dr. Ellie Sattler is Dr. Alan Grant's graduate student specializing in prehistoric botany. She joined him on the tour of InGen's dinosaur preserve. In the first film, it could be interpreted that she is in a relationship with Grant, as Grant's dismissive confirmation to Malcolm in the car could also be seen as simply friendly protection from the rock-star mathematician.
In the book she is engaged to a doctor. (In the film Jurassic Park III, we learn that the relationship between her and Dr. Grant did not work out, although they remain close friends. In the third movie, she is married to a man named Mark Degler, a man who works for the State Department and specializes in International Relations and Treaty Law.)
Laura Dern portrays Ellie in Jurassic Park and Jurassic Park III
Lewis Dodgson
Appears in: Jurassic Park (novel and film),
The Lost World (novel)
An ambitious, unethical rival scientist, Dodgson is not above corporate espionage and theft to advance Biosyn's technology. In the first novel and film, Dodgson hires Dennis Nedry to steal embryo samples for reverse engineering.
In the sequel novel, Dodgson is much more ambitious. He takes a team to Isla Sorna in an attempt to collect fertilized dinosaur eggs. He is ultimately killed when a Tyrannosaurus feeds him to a nest of T. rex newborns. In the second film, Dodgson's attributes are split between the characters of Roland Tembo and Peter Ludlow. In the first and only film his character is in, he is played by Cameron Thor.
Dodgson's name is a reference to Lewis Carroll, whose real name was Charles Dodgson.
Jurassic Park
These characters
appear in the novel and movie Jurassic Park.
John (Ray) Arnold
Ray
Arnold (played by Samuel L. Jackson in the film) ran the main control center from
within the visitor center. After Dennis Nedry turned off the power to the park,
Arnold volunteered to go outside and restore it, but was killed by a velociraptor
in the shed before he could. In the book, Arnold's first name was John, though
in the movie he was renamed Ray Arnold. His killing was confirmed when Ellie found
his arm behind some tangled wires in the maintenance shed when it dropped on her
shoulder.
Donald Gennaro
Gennaro, portrayed by Martin Ferrero in
the first film, was the lawyer that accompanied the first group to Isla Nublar.
In the film he was killed by a Tyrannosaurus while hiding from it in one of the
park's bathrooms. In the novel Gennaro survives but is mentioned as having died
of a dysentery sometime in between the first novel and its sequel. In the film
he is portrayed as an egotistical, worried, greedy person. Also in the film, he
abandons Tim and Lex when the Tyrannosaurus escapes its paddock, though ironically
that leads to him being eaten by the carnivore while everyone else survives. In
the novel he's a large, brave man who helps Muldoon shoot the Tyrannosaurus but
is afraid of the raptor nest; while in the movie he is neither large nor seemingly
brave. Also of note is the fact that in the novel, he was the only character to
be attacked head-on by a Velociraptor and survive.
Dr. Gerry Harding
Jurassic
Park's chief veterinarian, who makes a brief appearance with the sick Triceratops
in the first Jurassic Park film. In the first novel he appears to help a sick
Stegosaurus and then helps Ian Malcolm recover from his injuries. He survives
a Velociraptor jumping onto him from the roof of the visitor center, unlike Henry
Wu, and is rescued at the end of the book. He assumes that Malcolm is dead, but
actually manages to revive him in time. It is not made clear whether he is related
to Sarah Harding in the novel nor film; although Michael Crichton later revealed
that this was the case. In the novel The Lost World, Sarah informs Ian Malcolm
that her father was a veterinarian specializing in birds at the San Diego zoo,
which was noted of Harding's character in the first novel. Harding is played by
Gerald R. Molen, the film's producer. The character is not given a first name
in the novel, but it is assumed that "Gerry" is derived from "Gerald."
Robert Muldoon
Jurassic Park's game warden. Muldoon comes from Kenya, and had
been a long-time employee of John Hammond, working at Hammond's animal park in
his homeland. Muldoon was aware of the dinosaurs' threats and felt that they should
be destroyed. In the novel, Muldoon has a larger arsenal of weapons including
a rocketlauncher or two and is an alcoholic, while the film counter-part only
has a Franchi SPAS-12, though this probably wasn't his full arsenal seeing that
he got his gun from the emegency bunker locker, and is much more serious. In the
film, Muldoon is killed by raptors, but in the novel, he manages to kill a few
of them instead and escapes the island. He is not mentioned in the novel's sequel.
Interestingly, the non-canon Jurassic Park comic sequels published by Topps comics
depict Muldoon surviving the Raptor attack as well. The pretense for this was
that Muldoon had become so acquainted with the raptors that they were prone to
play around, and the attack seen on film was ostensibly just the raptors playing
with him. This heavily contradicts Muldoon's very negative opinion of the creatures
in both the novel and film. Muldoon was portrayed by Bob Peck in the film adaptation.
Alexis Murphy
"Lex" is Tim Murphy's sister and John Hammond's granddaughter.
In the film, she is the older sibling and enjoys dealing with computers. In the
novel, she is a sporty young girl who loves baseball and is relatively outgoing.
She was played in the first and second film by Ariana Richards.
Tim
Murphy
Tim is Lex Murphy's brother and John Hammond's grandson. He is very
intelligent for his age and easily annoys and is annoyed by his older sister.
In the film, he and Dr. Grant strike up a friendship because of Tim's interest
in and knowledge of dinosaurs. Although he and his sister are very wealthy, they
do not show any pompous action towards others. In the novel, Tim is older than
Lex, but in the film, their ages are reversed. He was portrayed by Joseph Mazzello
in the first film, and also made a brief cameo in The Lost World: Jurassic Park.
Dennis Nedry
Nedry worked for John Hammond and was in charge of networking
Jurassic Park's computers. In the novel, Nedry doesn't know what InGen does: he
was ordered to program without many details, and was called to the island to fix
numerous bugs. However, Hammond refused to pay him any extra money for his work.
Eventually Lewis Dodgson of Biosyn offered Nedry $1.5 million to steal embryos
from Jurassic Park's labs. In order to do this - and make a swift escape from
the visitor center - Nedry had to shut down the park's security systems, including
the electric fences surrounding the dinosaur paddocks. Without power, the fences
go out, and the creatures escape. His death in the novel is far more graphic than
in the film adaptation, as Nedry's stomach is slashed open and his corpse is eaten
by a Dilophosaurus. Just before he dies, he drops the shaving cream can that contains
the frozen embryos. What results from this is never explained in the series, although
it is possible that it may resurface as a major plot point in the fourth installment,
after scripts surfaced for a fourth Jurassic Park film involved this.
Wayne Knight played the role of Nedry in the film adaptation.
Ed Regis
Appears
in novel only
Regis was a publicist for InGen who acted as a babysitter during Dr. Grant's visit to the park. He meets a fate similar to the film version of Donald Gennaro, namely that of being eaten by Tyrannosaurus after running out of the car (though he hides between two rocks and is instead eaten by the younger T. rex). He was written out of the movie, and certain aspects of his character were given to Gennaro.
Dr. Henry Wu
Wu was the chief geneticist
in Jurassic Park and head of the team that created the dinosaurs. In the movie
he reveals that all the dinosaurs on the island are female. In the novel, Wu has
a much larger part; he proposes genetically altering further Saurian creations
to make them more manageable, something that Hammond opposes.
In the novel, he and the other survivors are holed up in the lodge while Ellie is making a distraction for the raptors so they won't attack Grant, who is trying to restore the park's power. However, two raptors already inside the compound which the survivors had kept in sight suddenly disappear, so Wu goes out to warn Ellie that they are on the move. As he does, one of the same raptors jumps down from the roof and kills him. The film does not explain Wu's fate, but it's likely he left the island on the last boat to the mainland before the power failure. In the film Wu was portrayed by B.D. Wong.
The Lost World
These characters appear only in The
Lost World.
Jack 'Doc' Thorne
Appears in novel only
Jack Thorne is a Material Engineer who specializes in building field equipment, vehicles and weaponry for scientists all over the world. He is an eclectic mix of character traits, relying on both practical expertise and Eastern philosophy, and claiming that one needs to know philosophy and history to succeed in engineering. His company, Mobile Field Systems, is hired by Richard Levine to outfit his expedition to study the dinosaur population on Isla Sorna. Thorne's contribution to Levine's mission includes a large research trailer called the "Challenger," along with a smaller, second trailer; an electric SUV and Motor Bike; a pair of Lindstradt air rifles; and a modified one-pound Satellite phone. When Levine goes missing on the island, Thorne ends up heading to Sorna along with Ian Malcolm and Eddie Carr to retrieve him. Once the rescue team reaches Site B, they often find that they are in need of rescuing, and Thorne ends up saving his friends multiple times, and is one of the survivors of Isla Sorna.
Ajay Sidhu
Appears in
film only
Ajay Sidhu, played by Harvey Jason, is Roland Tembo's hunting partner from India. He appears only in the film, and helps Tembo in many ways. He tries to tell Tembo's men to stay out of long grass, which is where velociraptors are hidden. He is ultimately killed by raptors, as this is confirmed when Nick Van Owen finds Ajay's bag, and then hears him scream. Ajay's passing changes Roland Tembo's mind about hunting.
Eddie Carr
Eddie is the group's field
equipment expert. He becomes a part of the team sent to the island since the vehicles
he designed were Field tested. In the novel, he is described as a slender and
strong 25 year old who prefers the city, while his film version is much older
at 46, as he has black hair and is balding. He is also African-American in the
novel while he is white in the film. In the film he is ripped in half in mid-air
by the mother and father T. rex but successfully saved Ian Malcolm, Sarah Harding,
and Nick Van Owen from the overturned trailers. Furthermore, his heroic actions
earn him a mention later on in the film, when Tembo claims "the rex just
fed", Malcolm counters; "Why don't you show him some respect, he saved
our lives by giving his." In the novel he is killed by raptors when they
attack the high hide, where he, Levine, Arby and Kelly are. In the movie he is
played by Richard Schiff.
Kelly Curtis
Appears in novel and edited
in film
Kelly is the closest friend of Arby's. Like Arby, she is smart, yet, in all other issues she is completely different; she is Caucasian, adventurous and free-spirited. She lives with her recently divorced mother in a middle-class neighborhood. Unlike her classmates, Kelly is fascinated by science and idolizes Sarah Harding. It was her idea to accompany Malcolm and Thorne once she learned that Harding would join the group later, but she left the planning to Arby. The film adaptation features Kelly, however, her character was merged with Arby's, creating a female African-American. She is Malcolm's daughter and was portrayed by Vanessa Lee Chester in the film.
R.B. "Arby" Benton
Appears
in novel only
Better known as Arby, R.B. Benton is a young African American who is friends with Kelly. His character was not in the film adaptation, having merged with Kelly's characteristics to form an entirely new persona.
Dr. Sarah Harding
Dr. Sarah Harding (played by Julianne Moore in the film adaptation)
is a behavioral paleontologist, and the girlfriend of Ian Malcolm in the film.
In the novel, it is revealed they once had a relationship which did not work,
causing them to become close friends instead. She is very intelligent, but has
little common sense at moments, and puts herself in danger many times. Michael
Crichton confirmed that she was Dr. Gerry Harding's daughter.
Howard
King
Appears in novel only
Howard is an assistant to Lewis Dodgson. Once a successful biologist employed by Biosyn, he lost credibility when his research on blood-coagulation factors failed, but Dodgson hires King as his assistant in the reverse engineering department. In time, he learns how to deal with Dodgson and how to cover his mistakes. In the novel, he accompanies Dodgson to the island, but they separate when they fail to retrieve eggs from a Tyrannosaurus nest. Eventually, he is slashed in the back and has his head bitten off at the neck by Velociraptors as he tries to escape from a field. King's character was replaced in the film with Dieter Stark, played by Peter Stormare. His death is worked into Jurassic Park III, with Udesky replacing King.
George Baselton
Appears in
novel only
Baselton is Stanford University's Regis Professor of Biology and assistant to Lewis Dodgson. It is his job to keep Dodgson and Biosyn in the clear, no matter what happens. He has hardly any spoken dialogue in the novel, and is the first casualty on the island. When he and Dodgson are trying to steal Tyrannosaurus eggs, the sonic device Dodgson is using to keep the rexes at bay becomes unplugged and both men stand absolutely still, falsely believing the rexes' vision is based on movement. The rex knocks Baselton over, steps on him and rips off his arm. He is then eaten by the rex, and possibly fed to the baby rexes. Dr. Sarah Harding sees his severed foot later in the novel, which is apparently all that is left of him. His character is replaced by Robert Burke in the film.
Richard Levine
Appears in novel only
Levine is one of the world's most brilliant paleontologists, as well as one of the richest; unfortunately, he is also one of its most egotistical. Dr. Marty Guitierrez seems to be his only real friend, though he eventually forms a prickly working relationship with Ian Malcolm. His egotism and enthusiasm about the "aberrant forms" from Costa Rica annoy Malcolm severely. The children Arby Benton and Kelly Curtis look up to him.
Roland Tembo
Main article: Roland Tembo
Appears in film only
A big-game hunter determined to kill a male T. rex, he was played by Pete Postlethwaite in The Lost World: Jurassic Park. He is not in the novel. A realist and a survivor, his outlook on hunting predators is changed when his lifelong hunting partner is brought down by Velociraptors. He is one of the very few members of the hunting team to survive.
Nick Van Owen
Appears in film only
A wildlife documentarian who accompanies Sarah Harding on her expedition to Isla Sorna. He did volunteer work with Greenpeace and traveled to Rwanda, Chechnya, and Bosnia with Nightline. Disgusted by InGen's treatment of the animals in the park, he opens their cages with disastrous results. He is played in the film by Vince Vaughn.
Peter Ludlow
Appears in film only
The new CEO of InGen after John Hammond leaves, Ludlow is Hammond's nephew. Ludlow decides the best way to correct InGen's plummeting stock offerings is by capturing the animals roaming Isla Sorna and bringing them back to a zoo-like setting in San Diego.He replaced Lewis Dodgson in the film adaptation. His ambition proves to be his downfall when he brings a male Tyrannosaurus and its infant to San Diego. Believing the authorities will kill the adult dinosaur, he attempts to recapture the infant, only to be caught by the adult. The T. rex breaks Ludlow's leg and uses Ludlow as hunting practice for the Tyrannosaurus infant, which kills him. He is played by Arliss Howard in the film.
Diego
Appears in novel only
Diego is Levine's guide on Isla Sorna. He is a young, enthusiastic Costa Rican. He went to the island several times as a boy and thus knows the land better than anyone else. However, he does not believe there are dinosaurs there and when Levine warns him to be quiet he simply says that they have nothing to fear, as only birds live on the island. He seems to annoy Levine many times, not only through his insistence that only birds live on the island, but disobeys his orders when using items like cigarettes while on Isla Sorna. Diego is killed by a Carnotaurus when, while he and Levine watch a Mussaurus in total awe, a Carnotaurus silently ambushes Diego and pulls him into nearby bushes.
Dieter Stark
Appears in film only
Dieter Stark is a hunter from South Africa with Swedish origin. He was hired by Ingen to be Roland's second in command. Dieter is sadistic to the Compys and zaps them, for he believes that they are frightening. Dieter is later killed by a pack of Compys. Dieter is played by Peter Stormare in the film.
Robert Burke
Appears
in film only
Robert Burke is a scientist who traveled to Isla Sorna with Roland Tembo's hunting party. He replaced the character George Baselton in the film. Burke is killed by a T. rex when hiding behind the waterfall with Sarah, Kelly, and Nick. He is based in the paleontologist Robert T. Bakker.
Carter
Appears in film only
Carter is Dieter Stark's driver, and is known
to speak in a sharp Mexican accent. Dieter is killed by Compys, after Carter does
not hear his cries for help when listening to Mexican music. He is killed when
running away from a T. rex as he slips on the wet ground, and is stepped on by
the tyrannosaur multiple times.
Jurassic Park III
These characters only
appear in the third film.
Paul Kirby
The owner of a hardware store who
poses as a wealthy businessman in order to lure Grant onto Isla Sorna to help
the Kirby's search for their son. He is played by William H. Macy in the film.
Amanda Kirby
Paul's ex-wife who accompanies the group to Site B, feeling guilty
for having lost Eric. She is played by Téa Leoni in the film.
Billy
Brennan
A young and overenthusiastic graduate student at Grant's digsite whose
impulsive actions land the entire rescue party in danger. He later redeems himself
by saving them from pterosaurs. Although the pterosaurs gave him many injuries,
he survived and was rescued by the navy and marines who were sent by Ellie Sattler.
He is played by Alessandro Nivola in the film.
Eric Kirby
The 12-year-old
son of Paul and Amanda who ends up stranded on Site B for eight weeks, and must
fend for himself. He found a way to collect T. rex urine and to collect a Raptor
Claw. Dr. Grant said he had a fossil one, from the first film, but Eric's reply
was that this was a new one. He is played by Trevor Morgan in the film.
A
separate series of books entitled 'Jurassic Park Adventures' documented Eric's
time on Isla Sorna (as well as other related stories) before Grant and the others
arrive. The book series was written by Scott Ciencin.
Udesky
A meek but
sardonic mercenary "booking agent" who travels with his two associates
to the island when the man who was supposed to go falls ill. He gets lost when
the group runs through a forest (and climb up a tree) and is wounded by raptors,
who allow him to approach the tree in order to draw the others down. Their plan
fails, and the raptors ended up killing Udesky by snapping his neck in their anger.
He is played by Michael Jeter in the film. His death was based on Howard King's
death in The Lost world novel.
Cooper
A tough and quiet mercenary who is
killed by a spinosaurus on the Site B runway. He was played by John Diehl in the
film.
M.B Nash
The Kirby's mercenary pilot who abandons Cooper and is subsequently
eaten by a Spinosaurus. He was carrying a satellite phone given to him by Paul
Kirby at the time he was eaten, which acts as a warning to the other humans. When
they hear the chimes of the phone, audible from within the dinosaur's belly, they
know that the Spinosaurus is near.
Charlie Degler
The young son of Ellie
and Mark, who thinks of Alan Grant as "The Dinosaur Man".
Enrique
Cardoso
The operator of the illegal para-sailing service, "Dino-Soar,"
which brings visitors to sightsee along the coast of Isla Sorna. He is hired by
Ben Hildebrand and Eric Kirby to take them to the island; however, Enrique and
his Boat Driver are attacked by an unseen animal when they enter a fog bank, causing
the vessel to crash and the tourists to become stranded on Site B.
Ben Hildebrand
Amanda's
boyfriend, Ben is known for being adventurous and even reckless. He takes Eric
para-sailing near Isla Sorna. When the Boat Crew is killed, Ben's quick thinking
saves the pair, as he disconnects the pair-sail from then vessel and glides onto
the island; however, they crash-land in a tree, and Ben is killed from his injuries.
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