Let alone a major movie studio spending a massive budget on adapting an original sci-fi IP that hadn't even been published yet. -OS
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Crichton's first novel was truly bizarre. Baby's getting eaten by dinosaurs and shit, but also had a very Mary Shelley, Frankenstein's monster, kind of vibe cleverly adapted to the post cold war world. Now Knopf would just have ChatGPT rewrite Frankenstein and set in 2025. -OS
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Remember the mini elephants in InGen's backstory? That was some weird shit. In hindsight, of course that guy wrote something as fucking awful as Next.
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It's interesting to me that Chrichton had several movie adaptations in the 1970s, and then a relatively fallow period in the '80s in terms of producing stories and completely in terms of adaptation. So this very big picture was a huge comeback and seeming risk, but ... Spielberg.
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