How much does Professor Challenger remind you of John Hammond of Jurassic Park? And how about the giant ribs the group runs through escaping the natives...they did the same thing in Steven Spielberg's The Lost World! Remember just before Julianne Moore was attacked by the raptor who ripped her back pack off? I think Spielberg was seriously inspired by this movie!
People who read other peoples spoilers are idiots
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The real inspiration for "Jurassic Park" was the movie "Westworld", about an amusement park where robots allowed visitors to enjoy various historical fantasies - but only if the robots don't malfunction. Michael Crichton, Harvard med school, graduate-turned-writer, thought the whole concept up. Later, using dinosaurs and his extensive background in microbiology, he re-tooled the "Westworld" concept into a novel first, his intention to eventually have a filmed version of the book.
"Don't call me 'honey', mac."
"Don't call me 'mac'... HONEY!"
I seem to remember Michael Crichton once stating that he didn't remember seeing the original movie/book but did apologize for using the same name for his novel.
shareI know this is an old post, but anyway...
Actually, this is an "adaptation" of a story by Arthur Conan Doyle (of Sherlock Holmes fame) and it's subsequent silent film by Willis O'Brien (of King Kong fame.) Chrichton's book mainly just "borrowed" the title for his sequel to his Jurassic Park novel. (I don't buy the story that he didn't know of the original book.) Speilberg, being a film fan, most likely included a few scenes or motifs as homages to earlier film version versions of Doyle's story.