The Jurassic Park novel was so kino. Sci-Fi dino horror is an underrated genre. They should make a real adaptation of it instead of making more Jurassic World garbage.
The Jurassic Park novel was so kino. Sci-Fi dino horror is an underrated genre.
The Jurassic Park novel was so kino. Sci-Fi dino horror is an underrated genre. They should make a real adaptation of it instead of making more Jurassic World garbage.
>Umm Mr Hammond, your miniature elephant is in excruciating pain and could drop dead at any moment
>What? I don't care just make another one. Hehehehehoo PROFITS! MONEY!
How did we go from that to Attenborough's character?
because Spielberg always simplifies the stories he's adapting. Having a Hammond present the kindly old grandfather act as a cover for the cold ruthless businessman works for a 500 page novel but not so well for a 2 hour movie, streamlining Hammond's character(as well as a good many of the others) allowed Spielberg to concentrate on the parts that made for a better movie
Attenborough also told Spielberg that he didn't want Hammond to be villainous.
he also insisted on chilli and sea bass be added to the move as it was his favourite dish
If anything Spielberg made Hammond a more complex character. Book Hammond is such an incredible hack that there's no way he'd ever muster the investors he has in the book. He's like a Handyman who takes halfpay upfront and leaves after tearing out your bathroom sink.
I love that part at the end where he blames everyone even the kids
and then he gets eaten alive by Compy's, have to hand it to Crichton, he ALWAYS gives his villains a gnarly death scene
they couldn't make another one. they tried.
cyberpunk kino
100% book accurate ten episode mini series, and the same again for The Lost World
honestly be all for that, Crichton's books in general would make for great big budget miniseries. Really is a shame that Hollywood fricked up the adaptations for his books so bad that he finally said frick them and stopped selling movie rights to them.
Crichton was on the set of the first Jurassic Park as an advisor and that’s why the first one is the only good movie. You know how in the book he explains why dinosaurs had to have been warm blooded because of how fast they moved? He sums up all of those pages of explanation by having the dinosaurs fog up the glass when they breathe on it and that’s fricking brilliant. Jurassic Park is a good dinosaur horror movie but Spielberg focused more on making it an adventure movie rather than making it more like Jaws. Congo was a far worse adaptation.
if memory serves Congo and Timeline were the movies that just killed any remaining interest he had in seeing his remaining books adapted into movies
The 13th Warrior is based off Eaters Of The Dead and is one of the biggest box office bombs of all time, that was the final nail. Prey adaptation fricking never
He actually was in talks with Speilburg about the movie before he ever wrote the book, the two evolved as independent works
The first Jurassic park Movie significantly improved on the books, in terms of having a complete arc of story and character, in addition to the incredible visuals on screen. Everything since has detracted from the novels, and should have never been made.
this is hands down the best audiobook to immerse in
Agreed, but the soullessness of the JW movies have convinced me that we will never get an accurate adaption
The time to have done this would have been after The Lost World and while Crichton was still alive. Instead, we got Jurassic World and its pointless sequels
I'm holding out hope that it means the slate might be wiped clean and we'll get a reset.
Not much hope, a fool's hope. But still.
Does the book have homosexual 'I love science' Brundlefly telegraph everything right at the start so he could be proven right by the script?
That was so intelligence insulting. Essentially no different and out of Left field as figuring out countdown and uploading 'muh virus' into alien ship.
>he pronounces it Crik-ton
Wow what a fay-gert.
Interesting that I'm seeing a few posts about this as a friend has been recommending it to me a lot recently.
It’s a miserable little airport novel.
I'm 90% sure Creighton read this piece of shit and realized there was a good idea behind it.
It's literally The Lost World Re-book, down to some characters.
What's up with him having so many adaptations? Did he have friends in Hollywood or something?
He was a director himself and went to Harvard medical school
He wrote good stuff that would make for a wonderful movie or tv show - he also created ER.
never heard of this, after reading the synopsis i can understand why
It got an awful Corman movie adaptation.
The scene where a dinosaur that is roughly the size of a Jack Russell tears apart a bunch of horny teens is peak shit movie for me.
CRICHTON KINO OFFICIAL RANKINGS
>Certified Crichton Kino
The Andromeda Strain
Great Train Robbery
Timeline
Jurassic Park
Sphere
The Lost World
>Very good
Next
Congo
Eaters Of The Dead
Prey
Rising Sun
>Meh/No good
Disclosure
Airframe
State Of Fear
The Terminal Man
I wanted the Lost World of the novel, a volcanic crumbling island that legitimately takes detective work to be found with most of the records gone.
Should I buy the paperback or the hardcover? I'd borrow it from library but I'd be afraid of losing it on my travels.
I would love this if it wasn't for "current year" politics. It would be ruined by them
>twenty-page self-insert rant about engineers bad waaaaaahhh
>kino
no
just leave the annoying kids out of it
The first movie was okay-ish, but the second one was so bad, holy shit, I get angry just remembering it.
I just wish they'd adapted the Lost World novel more closely instead of what they ended up making.
Sarah Harding was a total badass in the book but merging her with Levine for the movie ended up making her lame. The whole Dodgson and his cronies plotline was sweet as well, although I did find the Ingen Hunters in the movie cool in their own way.