James Newton Howard is an American film composer, orchestrator and music producer. He has scored over 100 films and is the recipient of a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, and nine nominations for Academy Awards.
This is a big budget remake of the 1925 silent classic and an adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's stupendous classic.
The story tells of Professor Challenger who leads an expedition to South America to a plateau that is said to be populated by prehistoric life which leads to them capturing a Tyrannosaurus, a Brontosaurus, and a Pteranodon and bringing them back to civilization where of course things go wrong.