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Dev Patel (born 23 April 1990) is a British actor. He began his career playing Anwar Kharral in the E4 teen drama Skins (2007). His breakthrough came with the leading role of teenager Jamal Malik in Danny Boyle's drama Slumdog Millionaire (2008), for which Patel was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. Patel's career expanded with leading roles in the comedy-dramas The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011) and The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2015), the science fiction thriller Chappie (2015), and a supporting role in the HBO series The Newsroom (2012–2014). For his performance as Saroo Brierley in the drama Lion (2016), Patel won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He subsequently starred in the independent films Hotel Mumbai (2018), The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019) and The Green Knight (2021), and made his directorial debut with the action film Monkey Man (2024).
Michael Crichton's groundbreaking novel follows a team of scientists and entrepreneurs who attempt to create the world's first dinosaur theme park on a remote island off Costa Rica. Using recovered dinosaur DNA, billionaire John Hammond has engineered living, breathing prehistoric creatures and built an elaborate facility to showcase them. When mathematician Ian Malcolm, paleontologist Alan Grant, and paleobotanist Ellie Sattler arrive to tour the park before its opening, they discover that the park's security systems are far more fragile than anyone realized. As a tropical storm approaches and a disgruntled employee sabotages the power grid, the dinosaurs escape their enclosures. What begins as a controlled tour becomes a desperate fight for survival as the team must navigate an island populated by intelligent, hungry predators. The novel explores themes of chaos theory, humanity's hubris in attempting to control nature, and the unpredictable consequences of scientific ambition. Crichton masterfully blends hard science with edge-of-your-seat adventure, creating a thrilling exploration of what happens when humans play God.
