The Lost World: Jurassic Park is a 1997 American science fiction action film. It is the second installment in the Jurassic Park franchise and the second film in the Jurassic Park trilogy. A sequel to 1993's Jurassic Park and loosely based on Michael Crichton's 1995 novel The Lost World, the film was directed by Steven Spielberg and written by David Koepp. The film stars Jeff Goldblum, returning as the eccentric chaos theorist and mathematician Ian Malcolm, as well as Julianne Moore, Pete Postlethwaite, Arliss Howard, Vince Vaughn, and Vanessa Lee Chester. Four years after the original film, John Hammond sends a team, led by Malcolm, to Isla Sorna, the second island Hammond's company InGen used to make the dinosaurs, to study the animals while coming into conflict with a team led by InGen to bring some of the dinosaurs back to the United States. After the original novel's release and the first film's success, fans pressured Crichton for a sequel.
Director | Steven Spielberg |
Produced by | Gerald R. Molen, Colin Wilson |
Screenplay by | David Koepp |
Starring | Jeff Goldblum, Julianne Moore, Pete Postlethwaite, Arliss Howard |
Music | John Williams |
Cinematography | Janusz Kamiński |
Edited by | Michael Kahn |
Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
Released | May 19, 1997 (Los Angeles premiere), May 23, 1997 (United States) |
Running time | 129 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $73 million |
Box office | $618.6 million |
Netflix ID | 60003016 |
About The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Steven Spielberg directed sequel to 1993's Jurassic Park that focuses on a research team that travels to Jurassic Park Site B to disastrous results.
Achievement of The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Jeff Goldblum is the only main cast member from the first film to have a prominent role in the feature, with Richard Attenborough only making a brief appearance.
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