It stars Bryce Dallas Howard and Chris Pratt as park workers on the run from a vicious, genetically modified dinosaur, Indominus Rex.

This year’s sequel, Jurassic World, recently broke the $1bn milestone in record time at the US box office.

In 1989, the director convinced Universal to pay Crichton $1.5m to secure the rights for Jurassic Park, before the book had been published. Spielberg was an early champion of Crichton’s book Jurassic Park, in which a theme park exhibiting dinosaurs recreated from fossilised DNA falls into chaos. “For Michael, size did matter, whether it was for Jurassic’s huge dinosaurs or Micro’s infinitely tiny humans,” he said. The novels set-up is simple: a billionaire named John Hammond finds a way to clone dinosaurs and builds an amusement park on a remote island to show off his. A sample carcass of the lizard is sent to a lab at Columbia. Steven Spielberg, the DreamWorks co-founder who directed Jurassic Park and was an executive producer on Jurassic World, said he was pleased to have the opportunity to work on another high-profile Crichton project. A previously unknown variety of three-toed lizard begins attacking children in Costa Rica. It was finished by science thriller writer Richard Preston and published in 2011. The novels were written by the late Michael Crichton, the first and second films were directed by Steven Spielberg, the third film was directed by Joe Johnston, the fourth and sixth films were directed by Colin Trevorrow, and the fifth film was directed by J. The book was one of a number of projects Crichton was working on before he died in 2008. Jurassic Park is a science fiction adventure franchise made by the late Michael Crichton. Micro is about about “a group of graduate students lured to Hawaii to work for a mysterious biotech company – only to find themselves miniaturised and cast out into the rainforest, with nothing but their scientific expertise and wits to protect them”, according to a statement from DreamWorks. The giant success of Jurassic World has prompted DreamWorks to gobble up the rights to Micro, one of the last novels by Jurassic Park writer Michael Crichton.

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