The Shocking Truth Behind Jurassic Park’s Hollywood Power Struggle

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It wasn’t just the dinosaurs that made Jurassic Park a monster hit—it was the behind-the-scenes drama no one saw coming. From Spielberg’s bold moves to creative clashes and near disasters, discover the untold story of how one movie redefined the blockbuster forever.   🦖 Stream it now—only on REELZ+ at reelzplus.com  Available on Roku, Amazon, Apple App Store, and Google Play.

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00:00Crichton had been toying with one particular idea for a decade when, in 1990, he publishes

00:06his novel, Jurassic Park.

00:09I interviewed Michael Crichton.

00:10It was a concept he'd had for a long time.

00:13The basic gist of it was, hey, let's use genetics, DNA extracted from mosquitoes, to

00:19recreate dinosaurs.

00:20What people want to see is the thing you never saw in real life, which is humans, dinosaurs

00:25coexisting at the same time.

00:27How was he going to have them together?

00:28Ah.

00:29Theme Park.

00:30Jurassic Park is about playing God.

00:33It's about bringing something back to life that you shouldn't necessarily bring back to

00:37life.

00:38It follows that long lineage of films that just because you can do something doesn't mean you

00:42should do it.

00:43So Steven Spielberg and Michael Crichton are friends, and they're talking about a project

00:46that eventually becomes ER.

00:48But during the process, Michael Crichton says, yeah, I got an idea about how to bring dinosaurs

00:52back to life through a DNA strain.

00:54Steven Spielberg had read the book in galleys.

00:56He always liked dinosaurs, and he told Michael Crichton he'd like to do it.

01:00And Spielberg goes, ding, ding, ding, and then his eyes lit up and dollar signs started

01:05just flying by.

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