Dr Ellie Sattler is a fictional character in the Jurassic Park franchise.
35 Facts About Ellie Sattler
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Ellie Sattler is introduced in Michael Crichton's 1990 novel Jurassic Park, which began the franchise.
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Steven Spielberg directed the 1993 film adaptation, casting Laura Dern as Sattler and giving the character a more substantial role compared to the novel.
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Ellie Sattler is a paleobotanist in both the novel and its film adaptation.
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Ellie Sattler is married to Mark and has two children.
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Director Joe Johnston chose to break-up Grant and Ellie Sattler, believing that Dern looked too young to be in such a relationship; Neill is 20 years older than her.
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Trevorrow and co-writer Emily Carmichael wanted Ellie Sattler to have a major part in the film, helping to drive its plot.
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Grant and Ellie Sattler agree to Hammond's invitation to tour the park, in exchange for $50,000 of funding for the dig site.
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The dinosaurs eventually escape, and after a Tyrannosaurus attack, Ellie Sattler helps Harding care for Dr Ian Malcolm's injuries.
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Ellie Sattler is briefly mentioned in Michael Crichton's sequel novel, The Lost World, in which she is known as Ellie Sattler Reiman.
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Ellie Sattler wants to have a child, but Grant is resistant to the idea of starting a family.
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Ellie Sattler is married to Mark, an employee of the US State Department, and she is in the process of writing a book.
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Grant has continued his Velociraptor research, which he discusses with Ellie Sattler while visiting her.
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Later, Grant contacts Ellie Sattler for help after he and others become stranded on Isla Sorna.
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Ellie Sattler enjoys her newfound freedom, and now works as a soil scientist.
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Ellie Sattler learns that the insects are bypassing crops which use Biosyn's seeds, leading her to suspect that the company has engineered the insects to boost its own profits.
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Grant and Ellie Sattler rekindle their romance, and prepare to testify against Biosyn in Washington, DC.
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Unlike the novel, Ellie Sattler has a more prominent role in the 1993 film adaptation, as director Steven Spielberg felt she did not get enough attention in the book.
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Ellie Sattler collaborated with producer Kathleen Kennedy on the character's appearance, and worked with writer David Koepp to incorporate some instances of feminist dialogue:.
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Ellie Sattler was absent from the previous draft, so Payne and Taylor decided to write in a small part for Dern to reprise the character.
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Ellie Sattler found such an idea hard to believe, especially considering that she was now married and had two children.
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Dern was hesitant to return only for a cameo, so Spielberg suggested that Ellie Sattler have an important role in saving the characters on the island.
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Trevorrow and co-writer Emily Carmichael wanted Ellie Sattler to help lead the film's story.
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Trevorrow wanted to depict a global ecological crisis caused by genetic tampering, with Ellie Sattler being the first to become aware of the issue.
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Ellie Sattler consulted with scientists to determine how to depict such a scenario, ultimately devising the locust storyline.
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Dern said in 2019 that Ellie Sattler was her favorite role.
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Trevorrow, Dern and Neill were in agreement on having Grant and Ellie Sattler reunite as a couple.
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Ellie Sattler did stunt work on the latter film, which included running.
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Ellie Sattler described Dominion as more physically demanding than the original film, and considered her character a "modern, feminist female action hero".
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Club wrote that Dern "carries the same fire of thoughtful indignation that made Ellie Sattler so appealing and essential in the first film".
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Zoe Jordan, writing for Screen Rant, believed that the film "slowly undermines [Ellie Sattler's] established strengths", particularly in two scenes where she behaves squeamishly around the locusts.
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In 2012, authors David Bordwell and Noel Carroll praised the film's depiction of Ellie Sattler, calling her courageous and well-educated.
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However, they did not view Jurassic Park as an "unmitigated feminist achievement", noting that Ellie Sattler's expertise "is never treated as especially deep or relevant".
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Ellie Sattler was disappointed by Dern's minor role in Jurassic Park III.
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Ellie Sattler considered it "a damn shame she was brought back for the threequel only to be relegated to the sidelines of all the action", concluding, "The world's foremost paleobotanist deserves so much better".