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How Hawaii’s Ever-Changing Weather Nearly Derailed the Filming of 1993 Blockbuster ‘Jurassic Park’
Dinosaurs are powerful, but it was bad weather that bullied the makers of the original 1993 Jurassic Park into finding a new place to finish filming the titular island park, where the ancient creatures are brought back to life and go on to do what dinos do — kill and cause chaos.
With Jeff Goldblum as a mathematician and Sam Neill and Laura Dern as scientists pitting their human noggins against the wily beasts, the blockbuster spawned a billion-dollar franchise, with the seventh installment, Jurassic World Rebirth, newly released.
But the ever-changing weather on Kauai, Hawaii, forced the filmmakers of the first installment to find increasingly innovative lighting solutions, and they eventually fled to Oahu when Hurricane Iniki laid their dino-park set to waste.
