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''Jurassic Park'' is an American media franchise centering on a disastrous attempt to create a theme park of cloned dinosaurs. It began in 1990 when Universal Studios bought the rights to the novel by Michael Crichton before it was even published. The book was successful, as was the 1993 film adaptation, which led to three sequels, although the third and fourth films were not based on novels, as the first two were. The software developers Ocean Software, BlueSky Software, Sega of America, and Telltale Games have had the rights to develop video games since the 1993 film, and numerous games have been produced. The ''Jurassic Park'' Ultimate Trilogy was released on DVD and Blu-ray on October 25, 2011 in North America. The first film was re-released in 3D on April 5, 2013. Since 1996, several water rides based on the series have been opened at various Universal theme parks. The fourth film, ''Jurassic World'', was initially scheduled to be released in the summer of 2005, but was delayed numerous times and was ultimately released in June 2015. It has grossed more than $1.66 billion, making it the third highest-grossing film of all time. When adjusted for monetary inflation, however, this film is the second highest grossing in the franchise after ''Jurassic Park''. A fifth film is scheduled for a June 22, 2018 release date. ==Novels== Michael Crichton originally conceived a screenplay around a pterosaur being cloned from fossil DNA.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Jurassic Park )〕 After wrestling with this idea for a while, he came up with the idea of ''Jurassic Park''. Crichton worked on the idea for several years; he decided his first draft would have a theme park for the setting and a young boy as the main character.〔 Response was extremely negative, so Crichton rewrote the story to make it from an adult's point of view, this story was better received.〔 Steven Spielberg learned of the novel in October 1989 while he and Crichton were discussing a screenplay that would become the TV series ''ER''. 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. Universal further paid Crichton $500,000 to adapt his own novel. Warner Bros. and Tim Burton, Columbia Pictures and Richard Donner, and 20th Century Fox and Joe Dante also bid for the rights,〔''Jurassic Park'' DVD Production Notes〕 but in May 1990, Universal eventually decided on Spielberg making the adaptation.〔 Universal desperately needed money to keep their company alive, and partially succeeded with ''Jurassic Park'', as it became a critical〔(Jurassic Park – Movie Reviews, Trailers, Pictures – Rotten Tomatoes ). Rottentomatoes.com. Retrieved on 2012-09-04.〕 and commercial〔(Jurassic Park (1993) )〕 success. After ''Jurassic Park'' was released to home video, Crichton was pressured from many sources for a sequel novel.〔''The Lost World: Jurassic Park'' DVD Special Features – Production Notes〕 Crichton declined all offers until Spielberg himself told him that he would be keen to direct a movie adaptation of the sequel, if one were written. Crichton began work almost immediately and in 1995 published ''The Lost World''. Crichton confirmed that his novel had elements taken from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's novel of the same name.〔(The Lost World ). MichaelCrichton.com. Retrieved on 2012-09-04.〕 The book was also an outstanding success, both with professional and amateur critics.〔 The film adaptation, ''The Lost World: Jurassic Park'' began production in September 1996.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher=British Film Institute )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jurassic Park」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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