Jurassic Park Filming Locations - 30 Years in the Making - Episode One - Gates & Paddock - Kauai
In this episode we hike through the Kauai jungle to locate the remote filming locations for the Jurassic Park Gates and the T-rex Paddock!
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
I did have a cold when recording the voice over if anyone wondered :)
Feel free to message me/ comment , I love hearing from other passionate fans
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