Official ‘Jurassic Park’ TV Series Revealed, Confirms Alternate Ending to 1993 Film
Few movie endings are as memorable as Jurassic Park (1993). After watching the titular dinosaur theme park descend into chaos, paleontologist Alan Grant (Sam Neill), paleobotanist Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern), mathematician Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum), park owner John Hammond (Richard Attenborough), and the rest of the survivors finally escape Isla Nublar by helicopter.
Behind them, Hammond’s dream of bringing dinosaurs back to life became a nightmare. But what if he had refused to give up on that dream?
Lost Jurassic Park TV Series Resurfaces Online
A long-lost animated Jurassic Park series — an official project developed in 1993 — has been revealed for the first time ever in the form of a pitch trailer. While fans have long been familiar with the project, this is the only footage that’s ever been shared.
The cartoon would have seen a very different continuation of Steven Spielberg’s sci-fi blockbuster, one that would have effectively offered an alternate ending to the film when compared to the storylines from the many sequels that followed, which the video below confirms:
Titled Escape from Jurassic Park, the proposed series would have picked up directly after the events of the original movie, bringing back familiar characters and introducing an entirely new chapter in the story.
Rather than leaving the island abandoned, Hammond would have returned to Isla Nublar with Grant, Sattler, and Malcolm to recapture the dinosaurs in an attempt to turn the site into a research facility, despite everything that had gone wrong during the original film.
Meanwhile, rival genetics company BioSyn would have been pursuing its own plans involving the dinosaurs, setting up a new conflict between the two companies.
The footage was recently shared by Jurassic Library on X (Twitter), who added that “more info” would follow:
After all of these years, it has finally been found!
Fans of Jurassic Park, I humbly present to you, the animated Pitch Trailers for the canceled Jurassic Park Animated Show!
More info coming soon! https://t.co/UGT5lOvvd5
— Jurassic Library (@JurassicLibrary) October 31, 2026
According to the story outline uncovered by Jurassic Outpost in 2016, the first season was planned to run for 23 episodes.
Alan Grant, Ellie Sattler, and Ian Malcolm were among the characters expected to return, along with Hammond’s grandchildren, Lex and Tim Murphy (played by Ariana Richards and Joseph Mazzello in the films), also part of the proposed story.
Unfortunately, for whatever reason (there are a few theories as to why), Escape from Jurassic Park never made it to television. Instead, audiences eventually got the film sequel The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997), followed by several more theatrical installments.
The franchise has since ventured into animation, though, with Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous (2020) and Jurassic World: Chaos Theory (2024), but neither explored Hammond’s original plan like this abandoned series would have.
Would you have liked to see John Hammond attempt to reopen Jurassic Park, or should the island have remained abandoned? Let us know your thoughts in the comments!
