Steven Spielberg Reveals That George Lucas Did The Sound Mixing on JURASSIC PARK

Steven Spielberg’s 1993 classic Jurassic Park was a game-changer and it forever changed how Hollywood made movies due to the CGI technology that was used to bring the dinosaurs in the movie to life. Those effects were done thanks to the creative team at Industrial Light & Magic, but it turns out that founder George Lucas also personally worked on another aspect of the movie… the sound mixing.

Spielberg revealed in a recent interview with THR that he personally reached out to Lucas to finish the sound mixing because he couldn’t do it. He had to travel to Europe where he was scheduled to start shooting Schindler’s List. He explained:

"I called George. I said, 'George, I’m in trouble. The studio's really upset with me that I'm going to not mix Jurassic Park and go off to Europe and make Schindler's List. Would you mix Jurassic Park?”

The filmmaker went on to say that George took over from him and Kathleen Kennedy joined him in the process:

“I already had his mixers working on the film, so George said he'd take over. And he and Kathy Kennedy mixed the film." 

So, there’s a fun little bit of trivia about Jurassic Park for you! George Lucas and Kathleen Kennedy did the sound mixing on it. Jurassic Park went on to win Best Sound Mixing at the Academy Awards.