

Before the book was published, Crichton put up a non-negotiable fee for $1.5 million as well as a substantial percentage of the gross. Steven Spielberg learned of the novel in October 1989 while he and Crichton were discussing a screenplay that would become the TV series ER. After wrestling with this idea for a while, he came up with Jurassic Park. Michael Crichton originally conceived a screenplay around a pterosaur being cloned from fossil DNA. Recently in November 2009, Joe Johnston, the director of Jurassic Park III, stated that the fourth film will have a different plot than the other three films.

There have been numerous rumors about the project since it was first reported, many of them relating to plot and script ideas, and new logos. The software developers Ocean Software, BlueSky Software, Sega of America and Telltale Games have had the rights to developing video games since the 1993 film, and numerous games have been produced.Ĭurrently a fourth feature film is in the works, but it has been lingering in " development hell" since a year after the third film. The book was successful, as was the 1993 film adaptation which led to two sequels, although the last was not based on a novel, as the previous films were. It began in 1990 when Universal Studios bought the rights to the novel by Michael Crichton before it was even published. The Jurassic Park franchise is a series of books, films, comics, and videos centering on a disastrous attempt to create a theme park of cloned dinosaurs.
