Probably the nightmare of many MFA professors, Jurassic Park features multiple close-third person POVs easily more than ten! This includes everyone from John Arnold (Samuel L. There are A LOT of Character POVs in Jurassic Park and Many Terminate When the Character Dies If you think the book occasionally read like the prose version of storyboards, there’s a reason for that. Jurassic Park was optioned to become a film before Crichton even finished writing it.
When he decided to turn Jurassic Park into a book and center it around a theme park of dinosaurs instead of his grad student in the lab, he sent an early draft of the book to his friend Steven Spielberg. Sound familiar? The point is, understanding the success of Jurassic Park (the film and the novel) starts with understanding that Michael Crichton was already a major power player in both publishing and in Hollywood way before 1990 happened. The robots of this theme park end up going berserk and start killing people. Wise has the bizarre reputation of having directed both The Sound of Music and Star Trek: The Motion Picture).īut Crichton did his own screenplays too! In 1973, he both wrote and directed the movie Westworld about a robot-theme park populated by robot cowboys. (That movie’s screenplay was written by Nelson Gidding and directed by Robert Wise. His 1969 novel The Andromeda Strain was adapted into a 1971 film of the same name. Now, it’s good to remember that it wasn’t super weird to think of Michael Crichton writing screenplays in the 80’s, nor was he any stranger to having his novels adapted into films prior to his success with Jurassic Park. In this proto-version of Jurassic Park, a graduate student would create a genetically perfect pterodactyl in a lab. The best-selling novelist conceived of a story featuring cloned prehistoric creatures as a screenplay first.
Jurassic Park Was a Screenplay First, Then a Novel, Then a ScreenplayĪccording to numerous interviews, Michael Crichton’s initial idea struck him in the early 1980’s. Here are a few essential details to help understand Jurassic Park’s unique narrative heritage. But the existence of Jurassic Park as a massive cultural phenomenon is also the result of the splicing of both literary and filmic sensibilities. In the reality of the Jurassic novels and films, geneticists recreate dinosaurs by combining their DNA with other creatures or, as in the new movie, splice genes to create an uber-badass dino. If you’re walking into the brand-new Jurassic World totally ignorant to the whole history of the Jurassic Park franchise, you might not believe me when I tell you that this frenetic summer blockbuster was actually born from a strange mishmash of cinematic and bookish origins. Sign up for our newsletter to get submission announcements and stay on top of our best work.
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