Special Supplement to "Velociraptor's 1980's Roots" (White Rabbit Object Volume 1: Number2.)
I found an interview with Jurassic Park’s author Michael
Crichton where it records that Crichton had written an original screen play
about a genetically engineered dinosaur in 1981. He held the screenplay back from publication
because: “At the time there was a great dinosaur mania in this country” […] “I
didn’t particularly want that association, so I decided to wait.” The problem was that the dinosaur fervor
never stopped. This was Crichton
experiencing the 1980s Dinosaur Renaissance
as an outsider. Crichton told the
interviewer that in 1989, because of the imminent birth of his daughter he
returned to the genetically engineered dinosaur idea and after several rewrites
delivered the final manuscript to Knopf in May of 1990.
Everything revealed in this interview with Michael Crichton dovetails
perfectly with the claims I have already made about the intellectual time line
of dinosaurs in White Rabbit Object Volume 1: Number 2. Crichton was working on Jurassic Park in
1989, and 1990 shortly after the publication of some of the foundational texts
of the Dinosaur Renaissance in 1986,
and 1988. The dinosaurs of Jurassic Park
are products of this revolution in dinosaur evolution.
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