James Cameron revealed in 2012 he tried to get the rights only to discover that Spielberg acquired them a few hours prior. To showcase the film's sound design, which included a mixture of various animal noises for the dinosaur sounds, Spielberg invested in the creation of DTS, a company specializing in digital surround sound formats. At the park's visitor center, the group learns that the cloning was accomplished by extracting dinosaur DNA from prehistoric mosquitoes preserved in amber. Spielberg said that the middle portion of the novel was lacking in story narrative, but that Crichton's set-up was excellent, and he put Spielberg and his crew on the right road. rexes could not be moved from their location at Stage 24, so new sets had to be built around the animatronics as filming progressed.

Although Spielberg was in Kauai at the time, and had visited the production, the opening sequence was filmed by a second unit crew. During production, Spielberg described Godzilla as the most masterful of all the dinosaur movies because it made him and viewers believe it was really happening. While the first film had been shot in Kauai, Hawaii, the filmmakers wanted to shoot the sequel in a different location with new scenery.It is designed in scale to humans and other dinosaur figures in the Hammond Collection, each sold separately, subject to availability. Winston's team was to create a puppet version of the animal for this scene, but ILM ultimately created the animal through CGI instead, basing the design off of a miniature sculpture that Winston's team had created. The premium finishes and movie-quality design accurately capture the unique personality of this aggressive carnivore.

Nick and Sarah treat the infant's broken leg, but the Tyrannosaurus adults arrive, having tracked the infant's scent.

Bilge Ebiri of Vulture reviewed the film in 2020, praising the horror elements and writing that it "might be Spielberg's nastiest film – a truly demented series of mostly wordless action and horror setpieces whose technical proficiency is matched only by their cruelty". million on its opening four-day weekend and went on to become one of the year's biggest hits to date. For the scene in which raptors attack the InGen team in a field of long grass, Lantieri and a team started growing real grass a year earlier on eight acres, located in Newhall, California. The crew is found dead, and the Tyrannosaurus is accidentally released and begins rampaging through the city. Nate Smith of the Natural History Museum's Dinosaur Institute, "Jurassic Park coming out generated a bunch of interest amongst young people that wanted to become paleontologists and get into the field.

Jackson was to film a lengthy death scene where his character is chased and killed by raptors, but the set was destroyed by Hurricane Iniki.

However, despite these records, its total box office gross fell below the total of the original film. Special-effects expert Michael Lantieri constructed the artificial waterfall, and the scene was shot using a Steadicam. In March 1995, Crichton said that he was nearly finished writing the sequel, scheduled for release later that year, although he declined to specify its title or plot. The next morning, guitar strings were put inside the car and a man on the floor plucked them to achieve the effect. The figure is also reasonably sturdy despite having so many joints— even the wire in the tail is reinforced with plastic "vertebrae" and I'm very proud of Matteo for their ingenuity.

Although they were also brought to the forest for filming, they ultimately were not used because of mobility issues and safety concerns. On the verge of bankruptcy, Ludlow intends to exploit dinosaurs from InGen's second island, Isla Sorna, with plans for a new dinosaur theme park in San Diego.Koepp was the film's second unit director, having volunteered for the position in hopes of gaining more directorial experience.