Editing Jurassic Park (film) (section)

====Novel changes====
Crichton said that because the novel was "fairly long,"<ref name=Cinef/> at nearly 400 pages,{{sfn|Shay & Duncan|1993|p=54}} the film adaptation would only have about 10-20% of its content; scenes were dropped for budgetary and practical reasons, and the violence was toned down.<ref name=Cinef>Biodrowski, Steve. "[http://cinefantastiqueonline.com/1993/08/jurassic-park-michael-crichton-on-adapting-his-novel-to-the-screen/ JURASSIC PARK: Michael Crichton on Adapting his Novel to the Screen] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131129012731/http://cinefantastiqueonline.com/1993/08/jurassic-park-michael-crichton-on-adapting-his-novel-to-the-screen/ |date=November 29, 2013}}". ''Cinefantastique'' Magazine, August 1993 (Vol. 24, No.2), pg. 12</ref> Spielberg said, "What I wanted to do was boil the book down and choose my seven or eight favorite scenes and base the script around those." In a departure from the novel, Spielberg sought to reduce the number of dinosaurs, believing it would not be "physically possible" to make the film otherwise.{{sfn|Shay & Duncan|1993|p=12}} Koepp said the novel was written "more or less like a movie," making it one of the easier book-to-film adaptations he had worked on. He said that, like with any adaptation, the most difficult part of his writing assignment was to determine the overall structure of the story.{{sfn|Shay & Duncan|1993|p=54}}

Spielberg removed an early scene in the novel, in which ''Procompsognathus'' kill a baby, as he found it too horrific.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=A Tale Of Two 'Jurassics' |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |date=June 18, 1993 |url=https://ew.com/article/1993/06/18/tale-two-jurassics/ |access-date=February 17, 2007 |archive-date=October 12, 2007 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071012180645/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,306930,00.html }}</ref> Another scene set in a [[pterosaur]] aviary was also removed, as it did not move the plot along.{{sfn|Shay & Duncan|1993|p=14}} A major sequence, present in the novel and the two earlier screenplays, involved the ''T. rex'' chasing Grant and Hammond's grandchildren in a raft down a river. Koepp chose not to include this in his script: "I never wanted the raft sequence. It seemed to me that at certain points in the book we were being taken on sort of an obligatory tour past every dinosaur the park had to offer." He said the omission was an easy choice, calling the sequence redundant and noting that it would have been "monstrously expensive" to shoot.{{sfn|Shay & Duncan|1993|p=55}}<ref>{{cite web |last=Rodgers |first=Blake |title=See a Storyboarded T-Rex Scene Cut From the First Jurassic Park |url=https://nerdist.com/see-a-storyboarded-t-rex-scene-cut-from-the-first-jurassic-park/ |website=Nerdist |access-date=February 5, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170803132710/https://nerdist.com/see-a-storyboarded-t-rex-scene-cut-from-the-first-jurassic-park/ |archive-date=August 3, 2017 |date=April 2, 2017}}</ref> Novel scenes that were cut from the film adaptation would gradually be included in sequels,<ref>{{cite book |last=Duncan |first=Jody |title=The Making of The Lost World: Jurassic Park |date=1997 |publisher=Ballantine Books |isbn=9780345407344 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o6YqAAAAYAAJ |access-date=February 9, 2025 |page=19}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Grubbs |first=Jefferson |title='Jurassic World' Should Feature These Book Scenes |url=https://www.bustle.com/articles/88762-12-un-adapted-scenes-from-michael-crichtons-novels-that-should-totally-be-in-jurassic-world |website=Bustle |access-date=February 9, 2025 |date=June 11, 2015}}</ref> with the raft sequence being featured in the 2025 film ''[[Jurassic World Rebirth]]''.<ref>{{cite web |last=Scott |first=Ryan |title=Jurassic World Rebirth Will Finally Adapt The Original Book's Scariest Scene |url=https://www.slashfilm.com/1779931/jurassic-world-rebirth-adapts-scariest-scene-michael-crichton-book/ |website=/Film |access-date=February 9, 2025 |date=February 4, 2025}}</ref>

Several characters were modified for the film. Originally a ruthless and greedy businessman in the novel, Hammond was rewritten to be sympathetic, as Spielberg related to the character's obsession with showmanship.{{sfn|McBride|1997|p=421–422}} The ages of Tim and Lex were switched; Spielberg did this because he wanted to work with the younger [[Joseph Mazzello]], and it allowed him to introduce the subplot of Lex's adolescent crush on Grant. For the film, Lex would also take on Tim's interest in computers.{{sfn|Shay & Duncan|1993|p=72–73}} In another change, Grant and Sattler are made a couple for the film, adding subtle romance.<ref name=BiggestMovie/> Koepp changed Grant's relationship with the children, making him initially hostile to them to allow for more character development.{{sfn|McBride|1997|p=416–9}} This is partly reflected through his relationship with Sattler, who wants them to have children of their own.{{sfn|Shay & Duncan|1993|p=57, 72}} Removed from the film was [[List of Jurassic Park characters#Ed Regis|Ed Regis]], the park's public relations chief, whose cowardly traits were merged into Donald Gennaro.<ref>{{cite web |last=Skipper |first=Ben |title=The 10 craziest Jurassic Park book scenes that should have made the movie |url=https://www.gamesradar.com/10-craziest-jurassic-park-outtakes/ |website=GamesRadar |access-date=February 9, 2025 |date=June 15, 2017 |quote=In the book Gennaro is much braver and useful, with the character in the film being more of a amalgam of that character and the unused character of the island's cowardly PR manager Ed Regis.}}</ref> Several other characters were reduced to one scene each, including Henry Wu,<ref name=Wong15>{{cite news |last=Guerrasio |first=Jason |title=Actor BD Wong blames 'racial exclusion in Hollywood' for his small role in 'Jurassic Park' |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/bd-wong-blames-racial-exclusion-for-small-jurassic-park-role-2015-6 |access-date=February 9, 2025 |work=Business Insider |date=June 24, 2015}}</ref> Dr. Harding,{{sfn|Mottram|2021|p=61}} and Dodgson.<ref name=empire/> The name of InGen's corporate rival and Dodgson's employer, [[Biosyn]], is also omitted and eventually featured in the 2022 film ''[[Jurassic World Dominion]]''.<ref>{{cite web |last=Nemiroff |first=Perri |title='Jurassic World Dominion' Director Colin Trevorrow Explains How Biosyn Got Back in the Dinosaur Game |url=https://collider.com/jurassic-world-dominion-biosyn-explained-colin-trevorrow-interview/ |website=Collider |access-date=February 9, 2025 |date=June 10, 2022}}</ref>