![]() 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. 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). ![]()
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