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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Entertainment
Jenny Valentish

The film fans who remade Jurassic Park​: how an Australian town got behind a $3,000 ‘mockbuster’

Cinematographer Michael Mouritz looks on as local GP Ian Flavell plays Sam Neill’s role of Dr Alan Grant, in a field in Sandon, Australia.
Cinematographer Michael Mouritz looks on as local builder Ian Flavell plays Sam Neill’s role of Dr Alan Grant, in a field in Sandon, Australia. Photograph: Steve Womersley/The Guardian

This morning’s location: a field outside Castlemaine, Victoria. The air is thick with flies, attracted to the cow dung but ignoring the nearby dinosaur poo, sturdily constructed from papier-mache.

“Oh god,” Sam Neill groans – though these words aren’t actually uttered by Neill but local builder Ian Flavell, who has taken on Neill’s role as palaeontologist Alan Grant – and drops to his knees in front of an ailing triceratops.

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