He took inspiration from Arthur Conan Doyle, who'd written his own dinosaur novel in 1912 called 'The Lost World,' and who had famously resurrected Sherlock Holmes after killing him off - a precedent Crichton used to justify bringing back Ian Malcolm, who had survived in the movie version of ' Jurassic Park' but not in Crichton's earlier novel.Ģ. Michael Crichton called his 'Jurassic Park' follow-up novel the only book he ever wrote that he knew would be made into a movie. Plus, it was the last time we got to see Jeff Goldblum's snarky scientist Ian Malcolm - at least until next summer's ' Jurassic World 2.'Īs smoothly as the production ran - Spielberg finished it on budget and ahead of schedule - there were still some surprises and jokes on the set. Indeed, the 1997 sequel may have prompted eye-rolling among fans, but it scared up a fortune at the box office, enough so that the franchise has continued to this day.
That was the assessment by Steven Spielberg himself of ' The Lost World: Jurassic Park,' which marks its 20th anniversary on May 23, 2017.
