In this penultimate episode of 30 Years in the Making we head to Costa Rica aka Kapa'a in Kauai, this is the the location where Spielberg shot the famous Nedry & Dodgson scene. We then hit the road and head south to Allerton Gardens where multiple Jurassic Park scenes were filmed. We visit the story of Hurricane Iniki which struck the island of Kauai during production and locate the hotel the cast & crew stayed in through the deadly storm.
Throughout this series I visit many of the Jurassic Park film locations armed with my 30 year old cinema ticket, some original Jurassic Park 35mm film cuttings and my collectors card from childhood, and, oh yes, my awesome wife too!
19 August 1993 was a bigger day in my life than I realised at the time. It was of course the day I went to see Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park. The movie has dictated my life journey in many ways since and installed my passion for filmmaking, so much so, at age of 39 I left a long career to re-train as a filmmaker.
Anyway, part of my childhood obsession was a book called The Making Of Jurassic Park by Don Shay & Jody Duncan. I read this book cover to cover and absorbed all of its content about the various stages of filmmaking. It was in this very book that I feel in love with not only filmmaking, but the film locations and made it my life mission to someday visit the Hawaiian locations.
I could not think of any better time than the Jurassic Park 30th anniversary this year (2023), so we packed our bags and headed to Hawaii. If you have read this you're probably a massive JP fan like me, so please join us on our adventure!
Hope you enjoy the series :)
Scott
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