The saga based on Michael Crichton’s novel will add a new chapter with the film starring Scarlett Johansson.
Facing the premiere of the film Jurassic World: RenaceUniversal+ announced in Latin America, especially for fans of the Jurassic world, which becomes the only place where they can enjoy the six complete films of the saga made up of Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park) (1993), The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997), Jurassic Park III (Jurassic Park III) (2001), Jurassic World (2015), Jurassic World: The Fallen Kingdom (2018), and Jurassic World: Dominion (2022).
The success of the productions had its origin in the writer’s work Michael Crichton – Author of the novel published in 1990- who in said work of science fiction and adventures, focused on a world in which genetic engineering applied to trade and the exploitation of animals was karmic for humans who, through the creation of a dinosaur theme park, lost complete notion of the consequences.
The novel was a best-seller that captivated the director Steven Spielbergwho in 1993 was put behind the camera for the first film adaptation, Jurassic Park, written by Crichton himself next to David Koepp.
The success of the first film – which raised a billion dollars – made Jurassic World became an experience that crossed the film plane, with the creation of thematic parks, through comics, video games, to identifiable merchandise that is nothing more than a symbol of the success of the saga that imagines a universe that appeals to scare and fascinate in the same dose.
For Crichton, it was important to conceive a story that showed his fascination with dinosaurs, which later moved to readers and the spectators of the saga: a fascination based on the need to reimagine a world that was believed to be lost. Likewise, both novels and films allude to the use of technology and how man is small in the face of immensity.
5 curious data on the Jurassic saga
- The franchise generated 5 billion dollars in income, making it one of the highest grossing media franchises of all time. The films saga, meanwhile, is one of the most successful in the history of cinema, having raised more than 6 billion dollars at the world box office up to 2022.
- To achieve the remembered Tyranosaur roar in the first film, the sound design team had to combine the grunt of a dog, a penguin and a tiger, in addition to the gorge of a caiman and the shriek of a baby elephant.
- The memorable logo of the novel, which was later incorporated into the movie saga, was created by the designer Chipp Kiddat the request of Michael Crichton, who did not want meat and blood dinosaurs for the cover.
- Steven Spielberg was a pioneer when marking the tone of the saga, consulting the renowned paleontologist Jack Horner to ensure that dinosaurs had a behavior that scientists could certify as precise.
- A large number of dinosaurs appear in the Jurassic Park saga, being the famous Tyrannosaurus Rex, also called T-Rex, as the most popularly recognized. However, in the films also the velociraptor, the hybrid Indominus Rex, the triceratops, the Stegosaurus, the compsognathus, among many others.
Source: Ambito
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