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- From: rtravsky@news.uwyo.edu (Rich Travsky)
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- Subject: Some Minor Jurassic Park News From Nat. Geo.
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.082810.377@news.uwyo.edu>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 15:28:10 GMT
- Organization: Banzai Institute
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- Just got the January '93 National Geographic, with a nice main
- article on dinosaurs. In said article, they had some info on
- the upcoming Jurassic Park.
-
- They have a marvelous picture of the T. Rex under construction.
- One "life" size T. rex, a couple smaller models.
-
- The accompanying text (told from the article's author's perspective):
-
- At the Stan Winston Studio in Los Angeles, I see a fleet of
- dinosaurs being built to star in the Steven Spielberg movie
- "Jurassic Park", based on the best-selling novel by Michael
- Crichton. Crichton imagines that bioengineers clone a zoo of
- dinosaurs from ancient DNA. They collect DNA from dinosaur
- biting insects preserved in amber. The clones are raised on
- a private island off Costa Rica as the stars of an intended
- theme park. A series of technical breakdowns lets the animals
- escape. Some spread to the Central American mainland,
- presumably to breed in the wild and eventually terrorize the
- world.
-
- "This could be the 'Jaws' of the nineties," says spokesman
- Martin Levy. "It's had the longest preproduction of any of
- Steven's films. We've come a long way from Godzilla. These
- dinosaurs will move so fluidly you won't realize they aren't
- living animals."
-
- "We have five main characters," says studio art coordinator
- John Rosengrant. "A T-rex, a sick Triceratops, a spitting
- Dilophosaurus, a Brachiosaurus - and the velociraptors."
-
- I meet each one. T-rex is the biggest - but it's only a
- mechanized black frame at this stage. The Brachiosaurus
- would be larger, but the studio is re-creating just its
- head and neck.
-
- Not much new information, but that photo is something else.
-
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