Jurassic Park Already Has The Perfect Franchise Successor
Jurassic Park is still considered one of the sci-fi classics, but with Jurassic World: Dominion closing its gates, another of Michael Crichton’s novels, Micro, has the potential to be the perfect franchise successor. Although Michael Crichton died in 2008, his sci-fi works are still among the most adapted in Hollywood, with current titles including HBO’s Westworld and the animated Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous. However, one of Crichton’s final novels features one of the author's biggest stories ever, and its adaptation could carry on the adventurous terror of Jurassic Park.
After Crichton's death, a number of his novels were found unfinished, and among them was Micro. In the tradition of Jack Arnold’s sci-fi movie classic The Incredible Shrinking Man and the Steven Spielberg-produced Innerspace, Micro follows a group of students shrunken to a half an inch after uncovering a conspiracy involving the morally dubious Nanigen Micro-Technologies. Getting lost in the jungles of Oahu, they have to find a way to secretly unshrink themselves while facing giant arthropods, microscopic mercenaries, and all the dangers that come with suddenly being demoted to near the bottom of the food chain.
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In 2015, DreamWorks announced that a film adaptation of Micro was in development with Jurassic Park director Steven Spielberg attached to the project. With Jurassic World: Dominion supposedly heralding a conclusion for its franchise after almost three decades, this seems like a proper successor to what Spielberg began with the Jurassic movies. Although nothing could ever truly compare to the original Jurassic Park movie, a similar adventure from the same
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