Random Movie Trivia - Jurassic Park

Here is the next edition in our weekly Random Movie Trivia post.  Enjoy:

Jurassic Park

• Harrison Ford, Richard Dreyfuss, and William Hurt all turned down the role of Dr. Grant.
• When Michael Crichton was attempting to sell the rights to his book, Warner Bros. was interested and they wanted Tim Burton to direct.  Can you even imagine how completely different this movie would have been?  I seriously cannot imagine a director that is a more complete opposite to Steven Spielberg.
• Pretty much any shot of a full dinosaur was computer generated and any shot of only a partial dinosaur was an animatronic.
• A baby triceratops was supposed to be the dinosaur that hatches out of the egg early on in the movie but was changed to a velociraptor.
• Richard Attenborough is the actor who played billionaire John Hammond in the film.  He is also the same man who beat out Spielberg for the 1982 Best Picture Academy Award.  Attenborough's Gandhi won over Spielberg's E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.  I always like to base Best Picture winners based on which would I still want to watch today, therefore the Academy choice poorly.
• Spielberg was so confident in this film that he left post-production to his buddy George Lucas and went on to start work on Schindler's List.
• Just like in the movie, a hurricane hit the island of Kauai during filming and the crew had to lifted out by helicopter.  They even took footage of the hurricane and used it in the film.  Luckily, they only had more scene to shoot when the hurricane hit which was done on the nearby island of Oahu.
• In Dr. Grant's trailer at the beginning of the movie, newspaper clippings can be seen on his fridge that say "Space Aliens Stole My Face" and "Dinosaurs on Mars!".
• In the original script, the T-Rex skeleton in the lobby of the main building was going to be hooked up to a pulley system and Dr. Grant was going to use those pulleys to crush the raptors.  Instead, Spielberg decided that the T-Rex should be the hero of the movie.
• There are only 15 minutes of actual dinosaur footage in the film.
• The T-Rex roar is a combination of a dog, penguin, alligator, tiger, and elephant sounds.
• During a scene in the computer room where an argument breaks out between Nedry and Hammond, you can see Jaws being played on one of Nedry's computer screens,  Jaws of course was also directed Spielberg.
• Sam Neill injured his hand while lighting the flare that he uses to distract the T-Rex.

"I guess I should point out that Velociraptors not only were believed to be covered in feathers, but were also only about a foot and half tall.  In other words, large angry turkey."