Jurassic Park, a book to tell the backstage of the film. Preview pages

Behind the scenes of Jurassic Park is James Mottram’s book that tells the secrets of a film that has become an icon, including scene and backstage photos, storyboards, concept art and lots of curiosities about the genesis and development of the films of the first trilogy. The book is published in Italy by Saldapress, has 256 color pages, with hard cover and dust jacket, for a price of 69 euros

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Jurassic Park, based on the novel by Michael Crichton, will turn 30 next year. The film has forever marked the contemporary cinematic imagination. Mottram’s book is embellished with a foreword by Sam Neill (the film’s Dr. Alan Grant), an introduction by Laura Dern (Dr. Ellie Sattler), an afterword by Jeff Goldblum (Ian Malcolm)

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The book begins by recounting the meeting between Steven Spielberg and Michael Crichton

Jurassic Park, the cast of the first film. PHOTO

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The book also features extraordinary concept art created for the film, such as this illustration by David J. Negrón, also chosen for the cover, in which the T-Rex is imagined chasing Doctor Grant and Hammond’s young nephews: Tim and Lex

Jurassic Park actress Laura Dern film and TV series

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In this photo, the cast is preparing to shoot the famous electrified grid scene

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Filming for the first film began in August 1992 on the island of Kaua’i in Hawaii. The same island had already been the location of the prologue of Raiders of the Lost Ark

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Steven Spielberg and Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy pose leaning against the Triceratops animatronic. The dinosaurs of Jurassic Park were made with gigantic life-size realistic robots

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A preparatory drawing by Erich Rigling shows an aerial view of the abandoned factory of Isla Sorna, location of the second and third films of the saga: The Lost World – Jurassic Park And Jurassic Park III

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The following films in the saga have introduced new creatures and new spectacular action scenes

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A photo taken from Jurassic Park shows Velociraptor hunting in kitchens

The spinosaurus attacks the protagonists of the saga in a scene from Jurassic Park III

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Steven Spielberg poses at the giant feet of a Tironnasaurus Rex animatronix