Facts You Didn’t Know About Jurassic Park

Jurassic Park is a classic, there’s no doubt about it. We’ve all grown up watching raptors hunting in the fields and glasses of water ripple as the terrifying T-Rex approached, but how many know that Jurassic Park is based on a book written by Michael Crichton? There are so many curious facts about this movie that we gathered a few of them in this article just for you:

1. Universal paid Michael Crichton 2 million dollars for the rights to the book.
2. However, pre-production started a year before the book was published so Spielberg had to work with a manuscript of the book
3. James Cameron was a few hours late from buying the rights to the book. He later said that it was good he didn’t get the rights because he would have made the movie a lot darker and violent.
4. Spielberg was already producing a movie based on another one of Crichton’s books when he heard about Jurassic Park. He dropped the project to pursue Jurassic Park.
5. Crichton wrote the book because he was concerned about how science was pursuing bio-genetic engineering for profits.
6. He also said that his views on science were expressed by Jeff Goldberg’s character Ian Malcolm.
7. It took Crichton almost a decade to write the book because he didn’t know how he could bring the dinosaurs back to life. That was until he saw the insects in amber-preserved their DNA.
8. The book and movie influenced a lot of people in studying paleontology.
9. Hammond was written as a ‘Dark Walt Disney.’
10. Critton believes that the movie is only 20% of the novel.

Which is why, if you are a fan of Jurassic Park, you should read the book to see what happens in the other 80% of the book. In fact, you can visit our online library www.ribemedia.com and check it out there!