#Jurassic park author series

Grant's group was to track the Pterosaurs back to Site B and crash on the island, while a parallel investigation was carried out on the mainland. New writers were brought in to scribe a story involving Pteranodons escaping from Site B and causing a rash of mysterious killings on the mainland, which was to be investigated by Alan Grant and a number of other characters including wealthy Paul Roby and his 12-year-old son Miles, Paul's love interest, Billy Brennan, a naturalist named Simone, and a tough Military Attache.

Johnston never had any concrete concept for the third installment, other than stating the film would be 'more stand-alone' and feature lots of flying reptiles. Joe Johnson rejected it because he felt it was like an episode of ' Friends', and no one wanted to see six college students on the dinosaur island.

Jurassic Park III was green lit in 1999, with the story by Steven Spielberg of Alan Grant who lived in a tree for eight years on one of the islands, to study the animals. Jurassic Park III was originally going to be called Jurassic Park: Extinction, but then Universal decided to drop it, and reuse it for Jurassic Park IV's early concepts. After the novel was published in 1995, The Lost World: Jurassic Park began production in September 1996. Production then began almost immediately. Crichton declined all offers until Spielberg himself told him that he would direct the sequel, if one would ever occur. The Lost World: Jurassic Park (a.k.a The Lost World of Jurassic Park)Īfter Jurassic Park was released to home video, Crichton was pressured from many sources for a sequel novel. Universal desperately needed money to keep their company alive, and partially succeeded with Jurassic Park, as it became a critical and commercial success. Warner Bros., Tim Burton, Columbia Tristar, Richard Donner, 20th Century Fox and Joe Dante also bid for the rights, Universal further paid Crichton $500,000 to adapt his own novel, but Universal eventually acquired them in May 1990 for Spielberg. 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.

#Jurassic park author series

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 pterodactyl being cloned from fossil DNA. 8.8 Jurassic Park: The Devils in the Desert.1.2 The Lost World: Jurassic Park (a.k.a The Lost World of Jurassic Park).