Michael Crichton was a successful novelist, and his first foray into show business was writing the screenplay for Westworld, about a park where everything goes wrong. It flopped commercially but basically planted the seeds for him to try it again, but with dinosaurs. Spielberg directed the adaptation and then there was a rush to adapt a bunch of other stuff. He was also an executive producer for ER, as it was adapted from a pilot he wrote, based on his own experience from med school (he graduated with an MD but never practiced).
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grill@thelemmy.club 3 weeks agoI never even considered that Jurassic Park was adapted from a book.
exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
grill@thelemmy.club 3 weeks ago
That’s cool, Westworld is awesome too.
toynbee@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
The original movie, which I suspect is the one being discussed here, was … Odd.
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
The Lost World (the second movie) is also based on a book by Michael Crichton [pronounced cry-ton], but it diverges from the book even more than the first movie.
It’s worth a read, as is Disclosure by the same author (pretty much all of his books are good).
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
There’s a couple of caveats. One of his books denies climate change is a thing, but still has “sources” at the b9tt9m of pages to look real. And then there’s Next, which is… a piece of work.
I think those were Crichton’s last 2 books too, so I think he may have been scraping the bottom of the barrel for ideas right before he died
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I liked that time travel book he wrote. It was fun. Timeline I think?