Perhaps the biggest difference between the novels and the films are the human enemies-The Lost World’s film adaptation and Jurassic World (and also implied in Jp3) cast Ingen itself as the villains. Although run by the well-intentioned Hammond and later Masereti in the films, Ingen ousts John Hammond from the board in “The Lost World”, leaving it in control of Peter Ludow, who wants to use the Isla Sorna dinosaurs as assets in the Jurassic Park: San Diego project. To do this, he hires a group of hunters and mercenaries to help re-capture the animals and have them transported to the mainland (It looks like Jurassic World II: Fallen Kingdom might have a similar goal in mind).
Masereti is outmaneuvered by Wu and Hoskins, likewise, in “Jurassic World”.
However, in Michael Crichton’s TLW novel-and indeed, many of the comics and video games released around the time-the villain is actually Ingen’s rival Biosyn…
…..the company that hired Nedry to steal the embryos (A feat which required him to also, in effect, sabotage the park).
Although the mercenaries in “The Lost World” seem to be a couple of dozen (and apparently all dead save for Roland Tembo), The Lost World novel’s Biosyn team is limited to three. They also enter the island by boat as opposed to Ian’s team landing by air (In the film it’s the opposite).
Like Ingen’s team, their basic plan is to steal Dinosaurs-although really just eggs for the most part, instead of getting the animal wholesale like Ingen’s plan. They’re led by Lewis Dodgson, who hired Nedry in the first novel and film, and who eventually suffers the fate of Peter Ludow in the film, although in the actual Rex nest as opposed to the hold of the US Venture.
Although cut from the film, it’s actually Ludow who is responsible for breaking the young Rex’s leg while drinking. It’s Biosyn’s trio who do this in the novel of course.
The second Biosyn character is Howard King. A cowardly character somewhat resembling Genarro in the first film (Gennaro in the first novel was a far more heroic character). After a debacle in the Rex nest, King is killed by Raptors in the long grass, something which kills off many of the mercenaries in the film version.
His somewhat graphic death is described more in detail though, with some similarities to the fate of Udesky in Jurassic Park III. Although unlike the likable Udesky, nobody tries to save King (although they’re horrified at what happens). This scene in the novel also has the Raptors start to develop a taste for candy bars.
Finally up is George Baselton, a sort of crank scientist working for Biosyn helping a bit with propaganda. The closest match he has is Robert Burke in the finished film.
Baselton’s death is actually a bit of Crichton poking fun at the first movie adaptation (although Crichton co-wrote the film) in which the characters were able to evade detection by the T-rex simply by not moving. Baselton tries this, it doesn’t work out at all..
The way his death is described however is fairly close to Eddie Carr’s fate in the movie (although certainly it’s also close to Burke’s fate as well).
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