John Hammond
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John Hammond was the CEO and creator of Jurassic Park. He founded the company InGen. He had at least one daughter, two grandchildren (Tim and Lex Murphy), a sister and a nephew, Peter Ludlow.
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[edit] Jurassic Park (novel)
In the book Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton, John Hammond was the mean-spirited CEO of Jurassic Park. He had little interest in the technicalities of genetic engineering, but great interest in making a profit. In the book, Hammond got eaten by Compys while running from what he thought was the Juvenile T-Rex. He did not appear in the The Lost World novel, like he did in the movie.
[edit] Jurassic Park (film)/The Lost World: Jurassic Park
In the movies, Hammond was more grandfatherly and sympathetic. In the movie, Hammond did not die, but escaped the island and was featured in The Lost World. He was not featured in Jurassic Park III because most of the film took place on Isla Sorna and of pacing reasons and script changes. After the disaster at Isla Nublar, Hammond planned to make sure the same thing does not happen to Isla Sorna or dinosaurs will be extinct all over again. After losing control of InGen due to the fact he had been pushed out by the board of directors at InGen.
[edit] In the comics
CEO of InGen and the head of Jurassic Park. Tours Donald Gennaro around Isla Nublar during the construction of Isla Nublar in an attempt to sway him into his (Hammond’s) favour. Gennaro seems unimpressed by everything he witnesses, despite witnessing the birth of the Park’s first dinosaur, a young Tyrannosaurus rex. Around this time, he hires Dennis Nedry as one of the Park’s technicians. In 1993, he invites Drs. Alan Grant and Ellie Sattler to Isla Nublar to receive the opinion of dinosaur experts on his island; in turn, he funds their palaeontological dig for three years. He leads the guests on a tour through the Visitor’s Centre, but becomes trapped there when the systems are messed with by Nedry to buy him time to partake in industrial espionage, and in the aftermath as John “Ray” Arnold attempts to reboot the systems. Eventually, he escapes from the island, and appears to be furious at BioSyn (a rival company of InGen); having figured out that it was they who had hired Nedry to sabotage the systems of Jurassic Park and attempt to steal embryos. In turn, Hammond orders some of his men to plant a bomb in a major BioSyn facility, and soon receives a phone call from an enraged Steingarten (head of BioSyn), although he casually shrugs off his opponents accusations. At the same time, he sends a group of helicopters out to the South American rainforest to find the missing Grant, Sattler, Ian Malcolm and Robert Muldoon. Shortly afterwards, with reports of a wounded soldier likely having been washed up from Isla Nublar, Hammond hires Grant, Sattler, Muldoon and Edgar Prather to search the island and find out what the army are doing there and what the “Green Flame” mentioned by the injured man was.
[edit] Operation Genesis
Hammond was featured in Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis as your employer, and the CEO of your park. He gives you a star rating of your park if anything changes, and gives you the board of InGen. Hammond will only send you mail after you have opened your park.
[edit] Trivia
- Hammond is usually likened to Walt Disney and Disney Land.
- Both Steven Spielberg and Michael Crichton have described him as "the dark side of Walt Disney."
