# Jurassic Park Franchise > 1990. Michael Crichton publishes Jurassic Park. 1993. Steven Spielberg releases the film. Seven feature films, two live-action short films, two animated Netflix series, Crichton's own literary sequel, seven video games spanning three decades, and one famously unmade fourth film. - **Canonical URL:** https://skemr.com/experience/jurassic-park-franchise - **Category:** Media Franchise - **Curated by:** SKEMR AI - **Contents:** 4 journeys, 18 chapters, 43 sources - **Last updated:** 2026-09-14 ## What this is A curated transmedia experience: existing web sources selected and ordered by an editor. SKEMR does not host the underlying content — each item links to its original publisher. Journeys are alternative routes through the same material. ## Journeys ### The Quick Tour One stop per scene — the novel, the film, the science, the effects, the sequels, the reboot, the cast, the shorts, the shows, the games, the books, the one that got cancelled, and where to watch. - Steps: 18 - Machine-readable: https://skemr.com/api/ai-context/jurassic-park-franchise/journeys/j-quick - Briefing for a chat: https://skemr.com/api/ai-context/jurassic-park-franchise/journeys/j-quick/briefing.md ### The Original Era (1990–2004) Crichton's novel through to the unmade Jurassic Park IV — the novel, the film, the vision, the score, the effects, the science, the sequels, Crichton's own literary follow-up, the era's video games, and the fourth film that almost happened, with a light touch on everything the franchise became after. - Steps: 29 - Machine-readable: https://skemr.com/api/ai-context/jurassic-park-franchise/journeys/j-original - Briefing for a chat: https://skemr.com/api/ai-context/jurassic-park-franchise/journeys/j-original/briefing.md ### The Modern Era (2012–2025) Jurassic World through Rebirth — the reboot, the trilogy, the returning legacy cast, the canon shorts and TV series, the era's video games, and the newest chapter, with a light touch on the original era it all built on. - Steps: 35 - Machine-readable: https://skemr.com/api/ai-context/jurassic-park-franchise/journeys/j-modern - Briefing for a chat: https://skemr.com/api/ai-context/jurassic-park-franchise/journeys/j-modern/briefing.md ### The Full Franchise All 43 instances — novel to Rebirth, shorts, shows, games, and the one that almost was, start to finish. - Steps: 43 - Machine-readable: https://skemr.com/api/ai-context/jurassic-park-franchise/journeys/j-full - Briefing for a chat: https://skemr.com/api/ai-context/jurassic-park-franchise/journeys/j-full/briefing.md ## Chapters - **1990 — Michael Crichton's Novel** — Crichton's techno-thriller about cloning dinosaurs. A bidding war for the film rights. Spielberg wins. - **1993 — Jurassic Park Releases** — June 11, 1993. ILM's CGI dinosaurs change cinema forever. $1 billion worldwide. - **The Vision: Steven Spielberg** — The director who took a techno-thriller manuscript and turned it into the film that eclipsed his own E.T. as the highest-grossing ever made. - **The Theme — John Williams** — John Williams's score. The main theme, one of the most recognisable in cinema history — the sense of wonder distilled to sound. - **Behind the Effects: Stan Winston & ILM** — Stan Winston's practical animatronics for close-ups, Industrial Light & Magic's groundbreaking CGI for wide shots — the first time digital technology brought complete, detailed living creatures to the screen. - **The Real Science: Paleontology Behind the Fiction** — Paleontologist Jack Horner, technical advisor on the first five films and a partial inspiration for Dr. Alan Grant — real dinosaur science woven into the fiction. - **The Sequels — Lost World, JP3** — 1997: The Lost World. 2001: Jurassic Park III. Neither matched the original but both kept the franchise alive. - **2015 — Jurassic World Reboot** — Colin Trevorrow's Jurassic World. Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard. $1.67 billion. The franchise reborn. - **The Jurassic World Trilogy** — World (2015), Fallen Kingdom (2018), Dominion (2022) — the trilogy grossed billions combined and brought back Sam Neill, Laura Dern, and Jeff Goldblum for its finale. - **The Cast: Legacy Returns** — Sam Neill, Laura Dern, and Jeff Goldblum — the original trio, and the studio-produced reunion that marked the 30th anniversary of the film that made them famous. - **2025 — Jurassic World Rebirth** — July 2025. Scarlett Johansson, Mahershala Ali. A new cast, a new island, a soft reboot directed by Gareth Edwards. - **By the Numbers: Box Office & Legacy** — Seven films, decades of box office data, one continuous franchise — the numbers behind the roar. - **Stream & Official Presence** — Where to actually watch the films, and the franchise's own official home online. - **Short Films: Battle at Big Rock & the Dominion Prologue** — Two canon live-action short films — a 2019 FX/Hulu original set after Fallen Kingdom, and five minutes of Dominion's own opening that got cut from the final film and released separately. - **Television: Camp Cretaceous & Chaos Theory** — The franchise's first two television series — DreamWorks Animation's Netflix shows bridging Jurassic World through Fallen Kingdom and on into Dominion. - **The Games: From Trespasser to Evolution 2** — Three decades of Jurassic Park video games — an infamously ambitious 1998 physics experiment, a LEGO adaptation of the first four films, mobile park-builders, and modern management sims. - **The Books: Crichton's Own Sequel** — The only sequel Michael Crichton ever wrote — his 1995 novel that Spielberg adapted into The Lost World: Jurassic Park. - **The One That Almost Was: The Unmade Jurassic Park IV** — Before Jurassic World, there was a very different fourth film in development — one draft featured genetically engineered human-dinosaur hybrid mercenaries, and Spielberg scrapped it. ## Sources - [Jurassic Park (franchise)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurassic_Park): The reference overview of the full franchise — novel, films, and legacy. - [Michael Crichton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton): The novelist behind it — his career, his other work, and how Jurassic Park fits into it. - [Jurassic Park (1993 film)](): The reference page for the original film — cast, production, reception, and legacy. - [Steven Spielberg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Spielberg): The director's own reference page, including how Jurassic Park fits into his wider career. - [Stan Winston](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Winston): The practical-effects legend behind the animatronic dinosaurs — his career, his Oscars, his other landmark work. - [Industrial Light & Magic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Light_%26_Magic): ILM's own reference page — a companion to Stan Winston's, covering the digital half of the same effects story. - [Jack Horner (paleontologist)](): The real paleontologist who consulted on the first five films — discoverer of Maiasaura, and a partial inspiration for Dr. Alan Grant. - [The Lost World: Jurassic Park](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_World:_Jurassic_Park): The reference page for the 1997 sequel. - [Jurassic Park III](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurassic_Park_III): The reference page for the 2001 film that closed out the original trilogy. - [Jurassic World (2015)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurassic_World): The reference page for the reboot. - [Jurassic World Dominion](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurassic_World_Dominion): The reference page for the trilogy's 2022 finale. - [Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurassic_World:_Fallen_Kingdom): The reference page for the trilogy's 2018 middle chapter. - [Sam Neill](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Neill): The actor behind Dr. Alan Grant — a supplementary look at the person, not the character. - [Laura Dern](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Dern): The actress behind Dr. Ellie Sattler — her own reference page. - [Jeff Goldblum](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Goldblum): The actor behind Dr. Ian Malcolm — his own reference page. - [Jurassic World Rebirth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurassic_World_Rebirth): The reference page for the 2025 film. - [Gareth Edwards (filmmaker)](): The director behind Rebirth — his own reference page. - [Battle at Big Rock](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_at_Big_Rock): The reference page for the first canon short film in the franchise — a 2019 FX/Hulu original directed by Colin Trevorrow, set one year after Fallen Kingdom. - [Jurassic World Dominion prologue](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurassic_World_Dominion_prologue): A companion piece to Dominion itself — five minutes originally shot as the film's opening, cut for time, then released separately as its own short. - [Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurassic_World_Camp_Cretaceous): The franchise's first television series — set before, during, and after Jurassic World and Fallen Kingdom, five seasons on Netflix (2020–2022). - [Jurassic World: Chaos Theory](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurassic_World:_Chaos_Theory): The direct sequel series to Camp Cretaceous, reprising its core cast, taking place before and during Dominion (2024–2025). - [Trespasser](): The infamously ambitious 1998 sequel-to-the-film video game, built around an early, realistic physics engine — a commercial failure with a devoted cult following. - [The Lost World: Jurassic Park (video game)](): The 1997 tie-in video game adaptation of the second film. - [Lego Jurassic World](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego_Jurassic_World): The 2015 LEGO action-adventure game adapting the plots of the first four films. - [Jurassic World Evolution 2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurassic_World_Evolution_2): Frontier Developments' 2021 theme-park management sim, set between Fallen Kingdom and Dominion, with over 75 prehistoric species. - [Jurassic World Alive](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurassic_World_Alive): Ludia's 2018 location-based AR mobile game, in the vein of Pokémon Go — collect, hybridize, and battle dinosaurs discovered in the real world. - [Jurassic World: The Game](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurassic_World:_The_Game): Ludia's 2015 mobile park-builder — a direct sequel to their own earlier Jurassic Park Builder, timed to the Jurassic World release. - [Jurassic Park Builder](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurassic_Park_Builder): Ludia's original 2012 mobile theme-park builder, the game that started the studio's long relationship with the franchise. - [The Lost World (Crichton novel)](): Michael Crichton's 1995 novel — his only sequel to any of his own books, and the direct basis for the second film. - [Production of Jurassic World](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Production_of_Jurassic_World): The real development history behind Jurassic World, including the abandoned Jurassic Park IV drafts by William Monahan and John Sayles — one of which infamously involved genetically engineered human-dinosaur hybrid mercenaries — before Spielberg scrapped the concept entirely. - [Jurassic Park (1993) — Official Trailer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGl2o7TfHmU): Universal Pictures' own official trailer for the original film. - [Jurassic World (2015) — Official Trailer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pn3XuARdb2o): Universal Pictures' own official trailer for the reboot. - [Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom — Official Trailer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vn9mMeWcgoM): Universal Pictures' own official trailer for the trilogy's middle chapter. - [Jurassic World: Dominion — Official Trailer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0d3zSCC5ls): Universal Pictures' own official trailer for the trilogy's finale. - [Jurassic World: Rebirth — Official Trailer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuTVaeMuCTc): Universal Pictures' own official trailer for the 2025 film. - [The Making of 'Jurassic Park' (1995)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNJ2oYvzSCc): The Universal-produced documentary narrated by James Earl Jones, with on-set interviews from Spielberg, Stan Winston, Phil Tippett, and the rest of the effects team — exists specifically to explain how the original film's dinosaurs were actually made. - [Theme From Jurassic Park](https://open.spotify.com/track/2TZbQZXOuR8osP2AK8yYMN): John Williams's original 1993 recording of the main theme. - [Jurassic Park Theme (The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra)](https://open.spotify.com/track/0zvAfHt58WIab9I66Ov7hL): A different orchestra's recorded performance of the same theme — a companion listen, not the original recording. - [Jurassic Park Franchise](https://www.boxofficemojo.com/franchise/fr2571603717): Box Office Mojo's own franchise page — real, verified box office figures for all seven films. - [Scarlett Johansson Details Depths of Her 'Jurassic Park' Fandom](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/scarlett-johansson-jurassic-world-rebirth-interview-movie-1236234212/): The Hollywood Reporter's own interview with Johansson on trying to get cast in a Jurassic film for 15 years before Rebirth. - [Original Jurassic Park Stars Reunite for 30th-Anniversary Featurette](https://comicbook.com/movies/news/jurassic-park-30th-anniversary-cast-reunion-sam-neill-laura-dern-jeff-goldblum/): Coverage of the studio-produced reunion featurette bringing Sam Neill, Laura Dern, and Jeff Goldblum back together for the film's 30th anniversary. - [Jurassic Park on Peacock](https://www.peacocktv.com/): Stream the original trilogy. - [Jurassic World Official Site](https://www.jurassicworld.com/): Universal's own official franchise site. ## Attribution Curated by SKEMR. 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