Return to Jurassic Park: Dawn of a New Era
Released: February 5, 2011Runtime: 129 min
A multi-part documentary about the making of the Jurassic Park trilogy. Each part walks through the making of part of one of the films, including the hurricane during the shooting of the first film, and how advances in CGI for Jurassic Park helped change the world of special effects forever. All interviews for these retrospective documentaries come with comments from Spielberg, Johnston, Neill, Dern, Goldblum, the effects crews, the child actors, and Peter Stormare. This documentary is broken into six parts: Dawn of a New Era (25 min), Making Prehistory (20 min), The Next Step in Evolution (15 min), Finding the Lost World (28 min), Something Survived (16 min), and The Third Adventure (25 min).
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Steven Spielberg
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Michael Crichton
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Kathleen Kennedy
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Stan Winston
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Jack Horner
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Phil Tippett
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Dennis Muren
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Randal M Dutra
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