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- From: ericb@sierra.com (Eric Blood)
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- Subject: Re: Some Minor Jurassic Park News From Nat. Geo.
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.181702.14834@sierra.com>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 18:17:02 GMT
- References: <1992Dec28.082810.377@news.uwyo.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec28.082810.377@news.uwyo.edu> rtravsky@news.uwyo.edu (Rich Travsky) writes:
- >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.
- >
- >+---------+ Richard Travsky RTRAVSKY @ CORRAL . UWYO . EDU
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