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Country:USA
Language:English
Release Date:12 June 2015 (USA) See more »
Also Known As:Ebb Tide See more »Filming Locations:Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
Box Office
Budget:$150,000,000 (estimated)
Company Credits
Production Co:Amblin Entertainment, Legendary Pictures, Universal Pictures
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Jurassic Park is an American media franchise consisting of novels, films, comics, and video games 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.
Jurassic Park stemmed from the idea of a screenplay about cloning a pterosaur from fossilized DNA. 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 much more well received.
InGen (International Genetic Technologies, Inc.) is based in Palo Alto, California, and has one location in Europe, Nevertheless, most of InGen's research took place on both the islands of Isla Sorna and Isla Nublar. While official records indicated InGen was just one of any number of small 1980s genetic engineering start-ups, the events of the novel and film revealed to a select group that InGen had discovered a method of cloning dinosaurs and other animals (including a quagga) using blood extracted from mosquitoes trapped in amber during various periods in time, ranging from the Mesozoic era to the 1800s. Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction describe InGen as comparable to another "sleazy organization".[16] Other sources reference the company's receiving the baby T-Rex as an allusion to other exploitative entrepreneurs depicted in King Kong. Ken Gelder describes InGen as "resolutely secretive, just like the firm in Grisham's novel
