The Lost World

The Lost World is a 1998 adventure film, loosely based on the 1912 novel of the same name by Arthur Conan Doyle. The film includes the characters, Professor George Challenger and Lord John Roxton, who also feature in Conan Doyle's other Doctor Challenger novels. It is a mockbuster of the 1997 film The Lost World: Jurassic Park. Plot In 1934, the researcher Maple White and his assistant Azbek, discover a world populated by dinosaurs situated on a Mongolian plateau. Soon after the pair are attacked by Eudimorphodons who kill Azbek, though White survives. White seeks out his friend, George Challenger, giving an account of his adventures, proposing a further expedition to fully explore the plateau. In London, Challenger organises a lecture in an attempt to convince his colleagues, Professor Summerlee and Lord Thomas, to finance the further expedition with the goal of proving dinosaurs exist on the plateau. Lord Thomas grants permission for the expedition on the condition Summerlee accompanies Challenger. Oscar Perreault, a spectator at the lecture, proposes to pay for the expedition's expenses if the scientists capture a living dinosaur and sends his associate, John Roxton, to represent his interests.