Reviewers and moviegoers can decide if “Jurassic Park III” turns out to be a boffo boom or bust. For now, it’s just nice that Kaua’i is still dinosaur country for the makers of the famed fantasy flicks about prehistoric beasts
Reviewers and moviegoers can decide if “Jurassic Park III” turns out to be a
boffo boom or bust. For now, it’s just nice that Kaua’i is still dinosaur
country for the makers of the famed fantasy flicks about prehistoric beasts
mingling humans.
Wailua Marina was among the places where Universal
Pictures and Amblin Entertainment did some location filming this week. When the
work finally shows up on the big screen, Kauaians once again will have the fun
of perhaps recognizing their island, just as they did when watching the
original “Jurassic Park” and “The Lost World: Jurassic Park.” Those movies,
released in the 1990s, included scenes shot in Limahuli Valley, Olokele Canyon,
Lawa’i, Kealia, Kapa’a, Kilauea and Maha’ulepu.
Those earlier cinematic
creature features combined for a roaring $1.5 billion in box office sales
worldwide. In the tracks of that phenomenal success, the newest film has a
tough act to follow. But at least it’s sticking with the Kaua’i part of a
winning formula.
