Barely followed the book
Just like jurrasic park, the story was barely followed at all. At least some of jurrasic park was followed. The lost world wasn't followed at all!!
shareIt was just a pay day for Chrichton. Speilberg wanted the sequel to be about returning to the original island to retreive the can, but Chrichton went on another tangent completely. The whole site b thing is a load of rubbish. In the first novel the island was nuked by the costs rican government, but speilberg left this out of the film so they could return at a later date, however the novel had to follow canon. Also chrichton bought malcom
Back to life even though he died in the first novel. Chrichton owned the rights to the franchise and speilberg was so pleased with the first story he waited for chrichton to write the 2nd novel to then turn it in to a film. In retrospect he regretted this as it wasnt in the direction speilberg thought it should go hence why the film is changed completely compared to the book.
That's no excuse. He could've done it exactly like the book even with Site B. But instead decided to do a different movie that rips off King Kong where at the end they kidnap a T-Rex and take it to San Diego where it escapes and wreaks havoc. Someday I wish we could see an R rated reboot of both those novels. Since they're both R rated novels. But it won't happen since these movies have always been marketed to kids via toys. Of course back in the 90s a lot of R rated movies were marketed to kids with toys. They wouldn't do that now though.
shareThis may actually happen someday. R rated films are becoming more profitable.
There is a lot of fascination with making things darker and grittier.
Maybe they can reboot the films and make them more like the book.