Hollywood ikon Samuel L. Jackson played a memorable other theatrical role inJurassic Park , but his character John Arnold was in the beginning contrive to die onscreen . Referred to as Ray in the movie , reportedly to avoid watcher getting confused by a John Arnold and John Hammond both working inside the ballpark , Arnold was the chief engineer of Jurassic Park , both in Michael Crichton ’s book and Steven Spielberg ’s celluloid . As it is , Arnold really does n’t play that big a use in the story , but he at least gets to utter the immortal"hold onto your butts " channel .

While John Arnold was a small use , it ’s still a very memorable one , partially becauseJurassic Parkis such an iconic film overall , and partially because Jackson has so much charisma that even when he ’s fiddle a passably bland role , the optic ca n’t help but blow his way whenever he ’s onscreen . Jackson would become a superstar the very next twelvemonth , when Quentin Tarantino’sPulp Fictionbecame a critical and commercial bang .

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What manyJurassic Parkfans may not know is that Arnold ’s decease was originally supposed to play out onscreen , and not just be a lawsuit of his eubstance being found later on by Ellie Satler . Here ’s why those plans exchange .

Jurassic Park: Why Samuel L. Jackson’s Death Scene Was Cut

In theJurassic Parkbook , John " Ray " Arnold give-up the ghost in pretty ghastly fashion . Instead of how he heads off to the maintenance shed to get the park back online in the film , Arnold in the Word does n’t go alone , channelize off with Muldoon . It ’s a small change though , as Muldoon still gets attacked by a group of raptors , leaving Arnold on his own . He gets to the shed , only to be brutally kill by a lone raptor . It ’s unclear if Arnold ’s plan death scene in the picture show would ’ve been the same , butSamuel L. Jacksonhas himself confirmed that he was supposed to channelize to Hawaii to film his last scenes , only for a hurricane to rip through the expanse , demolish all the outside sets .

or else , Jurassic Parkdidn’t sprout any more footage of Jackson , and just had Dr. Satler find his unbodied arm in the criminal maintenance shed , which they were able to film back in the U.S. on an indoor stage . It ’s a disappointing outcome , but real - life circumstances demanded it be so . determine Jackson playact out being kill by a bird of prey would ’ve for certain been a sight to see . At least he did finally get to meet a passably terrific death in the 1999 movieDeep Blue Sea , infamously getting eaten by a sharkmid - speech .

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