Director Joe Johnston spoke with Aint it Cool News about the status of “Jurassic Park 4.” He said that an “great” idea is in place and that he is interested in being part of the project. “It’s nothing like the first three.,” says Johnston. “It sort of takes the franchise off in a completely different …
Dreamworks has announced that Steven Spielberg is developing a movie based on Michael Crichton’s next novel. “Pirate Latitudes.” “Latitudes,” is the first of reportedly several posthumous Crichtion novels to be published. (The book comes out in November.) David Koepp, (screenwriter for “Jurassic Park,” “War of the Worlds,” and, um, “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of …
Editor’s note: The Unseen is a somewhat regular column, looking at movies that are out of print, never released on DVD and otherwise hard to find. For some time, if a movie made money, the question has been not if there was going to be a sequel, but instead the question would be how bad …
In 1978, Michael Crichton was well underway in his career as a great suspense/thriller novelist and he had already directed his first feature film, “Westworld.” For his second film, Crichton combined his current job with the vocation he trained for. Set in the world of hospitals and medical advances, “Coma,” based on Robin Cook’s book …
Novelist, screenwriter and director Michael Crichton, best known for his sci-fi stories based in fact, has died of cancer at 66. Crichton wrote big books, ones that the film rights were sold long before publication. Books like, ‘The Andromeda Strain,’ ‘Discolsure,’ and, of course, ‘Jurassic Park.’ Crichton co-wrote the script for ‘Twister,’ and co-created TV’s …