First Configuration

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The *First Configuration* is the first major part of the *JurassicVerse*, releasing three canonical entries from June 11, 1993, to July 18, 2001.

## Production information

### Budget (Individual)

* 63 Million USD (Jurassic Park
* 73 Million USD (The Lost World: Jurassic Park)
* 93 Million USD (Jurassic Park III)

### Streaming Platforms

* Peacock
* Netflix (Temporary)

### Languages

English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German, Arabic, Russian, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese

## Attribution Information

### Directors

* Steven Spielberg (Jurassic Park, The Lost World: Jurassic Park)
* Joe Johnston (Jurassic Park III)

## Cast

### Jurassic Park

* Sam Neill as **Dr. Alan Grant**: A palaeontologist excavating *Velociraptor* fossils in the Montana Badlands. He dislikes children, frightening one with a talon of a raptor, but he soon has to protect Hammond's grandchildren. Neill only had a weekend's break between filming *Family Pictures* and *Jurassic Park*, and had prepared for the role by meeting Jack Horner. Velociraptor is both Grant's favorite dinosaur and his worst nightmare.
* Laura Dern as **Dr. Ellie Sattler**: A paleobotanist and Grant's girlfriend. Dern also met Horner and visited the Los Angeles Natural History Museum, learning to prepare a fossil.
* Jeff Goldblum as **Dr. Ian Malcolm**: A mathematician and chaos theorist. He forewarns the danger of resurrecting dinosaurs and becomes Hammond's main opposition. He also falls for Sattler, another in a long line of romantic interests. Goldblum was Spielberg's first choice and is a big fan of dinosaurs. To prepare for his role, Goldblum researched Chaos theory, which included arranging a meeting with James Gleick and Ivar Ekeland to discuss the theory. Coincidentally to their romantic tension in the film, Goldblum began a real-life romance with Dern.
* Richard Attenborough as **John Hammond**: CEO of **InGen** and architect of **Jurassic Park**. Attenborough had not acted in a film since 1979 in the film *The Human Factor*.
* Ariana Richards as **Alexis "Lex" Murphy**: Hammond's granddaughter, a vegetarian and self-professed computer hacker.
* Joseph Mazzello as **Timothy "Tim" Murphy**: Lex's younger brother, into dinosaurs. He has read Grant's numerous books.
* Samuel L. Jackson as **Ray Arnold**: The park's chief engineer. He turns off the main power to reboot the mainframe — but unwittingly unleashes the raptors in doing so. He is killed by a Velociraptor.
* Wayne Knight as **Dennis Nedry**: The disgruntled architect of Jurassic Park's computer systems. He is bribed by Biosyn agent Lewis Dodgson for $1.5 million to deliver frozen dinosaur embryos. He is killed by a Dilophosaurus.
* B.D. Wong as **Dr. Henry Wu**: The park's chief geneticist. He made all the dinosaurs female and lysine deficient. He leaves during the storm.
* Cameron Thor as **Lewis Dodgson**: Head of research at Biosyn. He bribed Dennis Nedry into stealing dinosaur embryos for him.

### The Lost World: Jurassic Park

* Julianne Moore as **Dr. Sarah Harding**: a behavioral palaeontologist who is said to be at the top of her profession, Sarah is head strong and independent, which makes things difficult for Malcolm whom she is in a relationship with.
* Pete Postlethwaite as **Roland Tembo**: a big-game hunter from England. Although sometimes violent, he adheres to his own strict moral code. He also dislikes Ludlow.
* Arliss Howard as **Peter Ludlow**: Hammond's conniving nephew; a greedy and manipulative businessman first, last, and always. He is killed by a baby *Tyrannosaurus*.
* Vince Vaughn as **Nick Van Owen**: a well-traveled and experienced documentarian and environmentalist.
* Vanessa Lee Chester as **Kelly Malcolm**: Malcolm's teenage daughter from a failed marriage, Kelly often feels estranged and alienated from her father. She tries to bridge the gap in their relationship by stowing-away in the trailers.
* Thomas F. Duffy as **Dr. Robert Burke**: an palaeontologist who is proven to be incorrect on more than one occasion. He is killed by a female *Tyrannosaurus Rex*.

### Jurassic Park III

* William H. Macy as **Paul Kirby**: The owner of a hardware store who poses as a wealthy businessman in order to lure Grant onto Isla Sorna to help search for his son.
* Téa Leoni as **Amanda Kirby**: Paul's estranged wife who accompanies the group to Site B, feeling guilty for having lost Eric. Knows very little about dinosaurs.
* Alessandro Nivola as **Billy Brennan**: A young and overly-enthusiastic graduate student at Grant's digsite whose impulsive actions land the entire rescue party in jeopardy.
* Trevor Morgan as **Eric Kirby**: The 12-year-old son of Paul and Amanda who ends up stranded on Site B for eight weeks, and fends for himself without Ben Hildebrand.

## Films

### Jurassic Park (1993)

*A pragmatic paleontologist touring an almost complete theme park on an island in Central America is tasked with protecting a couple of kids after a power failure causes the park's cloned dinosaurs to run loose*

### The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)

*A research team is sent to the Jurassic Park Site B island to study the dinosaurs there, while an InGen team approaches with another agenda.*

### Jurassic Park III (2001)

*A decidedly odd couple with ulterior motives convince Dr. Grant to go to Isla Sorna for a holiday, but their unexpected landing startles the island's new inhabitants.*