Jurassic Park welcomed us all to a new era of blockbusters 28 years ago this week
Welcome to This Week in Genre History, where Tim Grierson and Will Leitch, the hosts of the Grierson & Leitch podcast, take turns looking back at the world's greatest, craziest, most infamous genre movies on the week that they were first released. By the late 1980s, Michael Crichton was one of the most popular novelists in the world. The author of The Andromeda Strain and Westworld and Coma, showing an ability to capture an audience with a killer sci-fi premise. He next wanted to write a book about dinosaurs, but he couldn't figure out the angle. "The problem always with these creatures is...
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