Morgan Freeman turned down a lead role in Jurassic Park, Steven Spielberg’s blockbuster smash hit based on the novel by Michael Crichton. The movie had it all: well built suspense, roaring, dinosaurs, and a wonderfully charming Jeff Goldblum. Jurassic Park was also one of the first movies to make expert use of computer graphics, and unlike many other films from that are, doesn’t really look dated.
Jurassic Park stands on its own as a technological marvel and a warning of man’s hubris. Of course the only other thing that could make this movie any better would be the deep, wonderfully soothing voice of Morgan Freeman behind the roars of the T-Rex. It is rumored that they even considered casting Freeman as the voice of the T-Rex, but that idea was scrapped as being way too much awesome to fit into one movie.
