The Park Has Been Open Since 2001 (#JurassicPeople)

An Epic Spoof 65 Million Seconds in the Making

"The Complete Video" - Jurassic Park Parody

"The Kitchen Scene" Shot-for-Shot Remake - Jurassic Park Parody

Cast

• Danielle Vernengo - Sarah
• Adam Young - Tim
• Jeremy Williams - Brad
• Seth Laursen - Ned
• Randi Martire - Christy
• Colton Ames - Lunch
• Jamie Hobert - The T-Rex
• Michael Perl - The Angry Velociraptor
• Jon Freeman - The Angry Velociraptor's Evil Sidekick Velociraptor
• Tom Stafford - Dilophosaurus
• John Thvedt - The Flocking Bird & A Gallimimus
• Casselle LaTourette - The Lonely Brachiosaurus
• Brian Bradshaw - The Sedated Brachiosaurus
• Matt Burnett - The Hungry Brachiosaurus
• Chris Teregis - The Gallimimus that Got Away
• Deme Catsauras - The Gallimimus that Didn't Get Away
• Mike Frankos - A Gallimimus & Mikey (In Opening Sequence)
• Jonathan Rastello - The Gallimimus Whose Mouth is Constantly Moving
• Josh Partington - The Happy Gallimimus
• Max Burrows - The Distant Gallimimus
• Emily Stapleton - Thor (The Secret Genetic Defect)

Crew

• Jamie Hobert - Director/Editor/Creator/Writer/Producer
• Michael Perl - Producer/Writer
• Armin Chamanara - Director of Photography & Camera Operator
• John Thvedt - Production Supervisor

The Jurassic People DVD (2001) - The Greatest Jurassic Park Parody Ever Created

Includes the Following (spared no expense) :

• The Jurassic People Film (19 mins)
• The Making of Jurassic People (49 minutes)
• The Deleted Scene ("Gallimimus in Heat")
• The Original Trailer
• Jurassic People - with Directors/Writers Commentary
• Jurassic People en Espanol (graciously translated for us by the cooks at Islands Restaurant in 2001)

Even the DVD menu is a spoof of the original Jurassic Park DVD. How did we do all this you ask? Because back in 2001 we had nothing but time on our hands.

The Making of Jurassic People

Days of Filming :

• 5 (During the Winter of 2001)

Budget :

• $375.00

Locations :

• (Los Angeles & Orange County, CA)

Kitchen Scene Info :

• 54 Shots in 9 Hrs. (The Kitchen at Aliso Niguel High School - Orange County, CA)

Problems During Filming :

• Theft, Fines, Lost Footage & Random Horses (See Below)

Camera Used :

• Sony DSR-200A DVCam (Standard Definition - Before there was "HD")

Editing Info :

• This was Jamie's First Editing Project (He now edits professionally and vows one day to make the sequel)

Editing Time :

• 5 Months (Adobe Premiere)

Random Fun Facts :

• The Eggs in the Film were made of White Chocolate
• The Spitter Slime is Molasses, Pancake Batter, Dye and Killians Beer
• The Deleted Scene shows two Gallimimus' mating.
• On the day of the 10 year anniversary of Jurassic Park the creators of "Jurassic People" broke onto the Universal Lot and made it down to Steven Spielberg's door before security caught on. Before copies of "Jurassic People" could be handed
  out, they were surrounded by what looked like the entire police and security department for all of Universal City. During their detainment, John Williams pulled up in his car, parked, got out and sat on the back bumper of his car and watched
  what was going on. It was quite a spectacle after all. Several minutes later Mr. Spielberg himself drove up and went through the gate. Detained and escorted off the lot by police, the creators of "Jurassic People" were subsequently asked by
  the police officer driving them if they "had any connections" because "he was also a manager for a recording artist". It seems everyone has a hand in "the business" in LA. This story in further detail made it into the cover issue of
  Entertainment Weekly several years ago about "Making it in LA".
• On the day of the 20th anniversary of Jurassic Park, the creator of "Jurassic People" went back to the Universal lot again just for fun but was turned away at the gate. Security is much better now. And frankly he felt too old now to lie and
  break in like 10 years before. So he snapped a picture out front and said goodbye to the confused guard.
• Also on the day of the 20th anniversary of Jurassic Park, the short film "Jurassic People" as well as the "Kitchen Scene" from the film, were both uploaded to Youtube (finally!) in 16:9 anamorphic widescreen. It was the first time
  that version of the video was ever seen since the DVD only has the original 4:3 "Letterbox" version. This was all created before there was HD.
• On the day Jurassic World premiered in the United States, @JurassicPeople sent out its first tweet ever. #JurassicPeople There were 3 tweets in all: The first includes a link to the full short film, the 2nd spoofs a tweet by Colin Trevorrow,
  the director of Jurassic World, and the 3rd includes a link to the shot for shot remake of the Kitchen Scene in "Jurassic People".
• On the day of the 30th anniversary of Jurassic Park, the creator of Jurassic People did something very "2023"...he posted his first TikTok video ever. He created the account @JurassicPeopleOG and posted the jello scene and raptors in the kitchen scene from "Jurassic People" in direct response to Jurassic World's official TikTok challenge just days prior to re-create the famous "jello scene" from the original movie. By the end of the night, the viral response was overwhelming: 4 views and 1 like. Hell yeah!!!
• The Sequel to Jurassic People has already been written...it's only a matter of time.

The Complete Story: or, How This Film Was Made

Sixty-five million years ago dinosaurs ruled the earth. But then they all died. In 1993, Man brought dinosaurs back to life. But then the mailman from Seinfeld tried to run away with a Barbasol can full of Dino-DNA but he fell, dropping the can
down a hill and into the mud below. Anyone who watched the original Jurassic Park knew that this scene was a sign that there would soon be a Jurassic Park II. However, with the passing of the sequel one question remained unanswered: What
happened to the Barbasol can?

With the dawn of the new millennium, Jamie Hobert was sick of sitting around asking himself over and over that very same question, so he decided to make a short film telling the true story of what exactly did happen to that missing Barbasol
can.

This is, in brief, what took place during The Making of Jurassic People… .

Teaming up with Michael Perl, Jamie sat down in the fall of 2000 and developed a story that would put to rest the question that millions of people were asking themselves everyday: What happened to that Barbasol can in the original Jurassic
Park?

The result: An award winning short film about several hikers who wander onto an island and come upon a lonely can of shaving cream, which they then open, finding several little yellow liquid capsules, which they of course drink, consequently
stripping themselves down to nothing but their thermal underwear as one by one they each turn into Dinosaur-like humans, or better yet, Jurassic People.

With award winning dialogue like, "Oh look, a bowl of Jell-o" and "Who's your daddy," Jurassic People was bound to be a cinematic success.

Filming began in January of 2001 and was scheduled to be shot over a period of three days (plus one extra for just the kitchen scene) with a budget of just under $375. Using the camera (Sony DVCam) and talent of filmmaker Armin Chamanara, Jamie
and Mike rounded up some friends and pushed hard and fast to complete the shooting of this unforgettable epic. However, no one could have predicted the number of "unlucky" or "unfortunate" incidents that would plague this production.

Day 1

Day One took place in Griffith Park (Los Angeles, CA). However, before even making it to the park the battery of the Jeep used in the film died, putting the shoot 45 minutes behind schedule. Not a good sign. Filming began around 8 AM and
continued into the early evening covering such memorable scenes as, "The Argument in the Car Scene," "The Brachiosaurus Scene," "The T-Rex Chase" and "The Spitter Scene" - all the while keeping the nearby city and other signs of civilization
out of frame. One scene even had to be re-shot because a random horse decided to walk into the shot.

Although it was funny, the director really couldn't use the take where Seth Laursen (Ned) told Randy Martire (Christy) to get out of the car by saying: "Get out of the car!!! That's right, take that fuckin' horse and get the hell out of here!"
(Silence followed by laughter as a big black horse slowly passes by the front of the car) The day would come to a crashing halt when a lonely park ranger, on an enormously pathetic power trip, would roll in and fork over a $300 ticket for
having a Jeep on a fire road.

This "unfortunate" incident as well as many others was, of course, caught on tape, and is included in the ever-so-entertaining DVD which features "The Making of Jurassic People."

Day 2

Day Two took place in the secluded hills outside Santa Margarita, CA. Since the crew could no longer film in Griffith Park, Mike and Jamie quickly found this back-up location on the morning of the next day - day two of the three-day shoot.

Covering such memorable scenes as "The Raptors in the Bushes Scene" and "The People in the Tree Scene," the second day was moving right along until it was discovered that in the 10 minutes when no one was watching the bags and backpacks of the
cast and crew , one of the 4 or 5 cars that drove by all day happened to stop and steal a backpack which "unfortunately" contained the following:

• Jamie Hobert's wallet
• Danielle Vernengo's wallet (including over $100 in Christmas gift certificates)
• All of Danielle's make-up (theater/film and everyday make-up)
• Jamie's camera
• Danielle's camera
• 3 pairs of Danielle's clothing
• Jeremy Williams $75 pair of sunglasses
• A brand new $90 pair of walkie-talkies
• And finally the backpack itself

That was the end to Day Two.

Day 3

Day Three took place in the hills of Aliso Woods Canyon (Aliso Viejo, CA) and covered such memorable scenes as "The Gallimimus Scene," (watching the gallimimus slip and fall while trying to run sideways on a wet hill provided for many hilarious
outtakes) as well as "The Opening and Kissing Scenes," the deleted - "Gallimimus in Heat Scene"

(available of course on the super-exclusive DVD ) and finally, "The Hatched Eggs Scene" - which included the ever-so-necessary shot of Danielle yelling, "Run!" - impersonating the all too emotional line of Laura Dern in the original Jurassic
Park. After several hours, shooting then moved to Irvine, CA where the finale scene between the Raptors and the T-Rex was shot. However, as luck would have it, it began to rain, and instead of driving off into the sunset, the heroes of this
film drive off into the cloudy distance.

Exhausted, the crew returned to watch the footage of all 3 days only to find out that somehow, "unfortunately" the best takes (and in some cases the only takes) of several of the scenes had been taped over. The crew sat around in exhausted and
depressing disbelief and then did the only thing you can do in that situation: they went to sleep.

Four months later they woke up and in the spring of 2001 they shot the only scene with a real stunt (The Bird Scene - shot by driving two pickup trucks backward with the camera on the back of one truck and the bird (John Thvedt) laying on a
piece of wood hanging five feet off the back end of the other truck).

This was followed by the shot-for-shot remake of "The Kitchen Scene" filmed at nearby Aliso Niguel High School. Hours had been spent prior to the shoot cataloguing the angle, length, and action of each shot of the kitchen scene, 54 in all.
Since everything was on wheels, Jamie and Mike were able to rearrange the schools kitchen and, in just under 9 hours, film the complete remake of one of the most memorable scenes of Jurassic Park.

Jamie then spent the first 5 months of 2002 both cataloguing the sounds and music of Jurassic Park to match the scenes of Jurassic People, and eventually, using Adobe Premiere, editing everything together to complete the unforgettable story
that answers the age old question: What happened to that Barbasol can?

Jurassic People: An Epic Spoof 65 Million Seconds in the Making

What is ISM Productions?

ISM Productions is an extinct theater/film organization.

Who is Thor?

Thor is not a dinosaur. Thor is not human either.

Thor is… unexplainable.

From what we know, Thor is a secret genetic defect that will be hidden somewhere in one scene of every film made by, or involving, Jamie Hobert… and it's up to you, the viewer, to find out where it is.

Coming Soon: The sequel...one day...when we have time...it's already written...we just have jobs and families now...but one day...

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