However, Hurricane Iniki had different plans for Samuel L. Jackson’s place in the Jurassic Park franchise.
Samuel L. Jackson portrays the chief engineer, John “Ray” Arnold, of Jurassic Park and falls prey to the island’s carnivorous resident velociraptors, as revealed in an unforgettably gruesome scene where Laura Dern’s Dr. Ellie Sattler character discovers his bloody, severed arm in an abandoned electronics shed.
So, who knows, maybe the Hurricane Iniki did Samuel L. Jackson a favor, keeping his character’s death a mystery, that has left fans wondering for over two decades what exactly happened to him.
Samuel L. Jackson has recently revealed that his Jurassic Park role was intended to be longer and more gory, but mother nature got in the way of him returning to Kauai to finish off his scenes.