Michael Crichton

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q172140: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by Wikidata joins them to The Lost World: Jurassic Park, which The Lost World: Jurassic Park credits them on.

Counted as writer, the making department they hold the most credits in. The films the hosts said they wrote, which the two lists below run through too: Jurassic Park (1993); Congo (1995); Twister (1996); The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997); Sphere (1998); The 13th Warrior (1999); Disclosure; ER (TV series); Rising Sun; The Andromeda Strain; The Terminal Man; Timeline. Count them as director (7 films) instead.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Michael Crichton: 9 lines, within their own work

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The 13th Warrior (1999), which they wrote: Michael Crichton ⇒ The 13th Warrior (the host's read). Lowery read the Crichton novel and found the film is the book almost scene for scene.
    “reading the book, I was like, this is pretty much just scene for scene exactly what's on screen.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior with David Lowery (Ad-Free) · 0:19:51 · David Lowery (0.85 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (adapted) · through Jurassic Park (1993), which they wrote: Michael Crichton ⇒ Jurassic Park (the host's read). Named among the Crichton adaptations they could do another time.
    “we would not do Jurassic Park”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Game with Brendan Hines (Ad-Free) · 0:18:30 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. unmapped (adapted) · through The Andromeda Strain, which they wrote: Michael Crichton ⇒ The Andromeda Strain (the host's read). Suggested as part of a Crichton adaptations series.
    “It would be like Andromeda strain.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Game with Brendan Hines (Ad-Free) · 0:18:38 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. unmapped (adapted) · through The Terminal Man, which they wrote: Michael Crichton ⇒ The Terminal Man (the host's read). Suggested as part of a Crichton adaptations series.
    “I think we would do the terminal man”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Game with Brendan Hines (Ad-Free) · 0:18:38 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  5. unmapped (adapted) · through Rising Sun, which they wrote: Michael Crichton ⇒ Rising Sun (the host's read). Suggested as part of a Crichton adaptations series.
    “You do Rising Sun.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Game with Brendan Hines (Ad-Free) · 0:18:57 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  6. unmapped (adapted) · through Congo (1995), which they wrote: Michael Crichton ⇒ Congo (the host's read). Suggested as part of a Crichton adaptations series.
    “You do Congo.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Game with Brendan Hines (Ad-Free) · 0:19:02 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  7. unmapped (adapted) · through Sphere (1998), which they wrote: Michael Crichton ⇒ Sphere (the host's read). Suggested as part of a Crichton adaptations series.
    “You got to look at the sphere.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Game with Brendan Hines (Ad-Free) · 0:19:05 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  8. unmapped (adapted) · through Timeline, which they wrote: Michael Crichton ⇒ Timeline (the host's read). Suggested as part of a Crichton adaptations series.
    “And then maybe do the 13th Warrior and Timeline.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Game with Brendan Hines (Ad-Free) · 0:19:12 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  9. unmapped (adapted) · through Disclosure, which they wrote: Michael Crichton ⇒ Disclosure (the host's read). The hosts note Disclosure is a Crichton book adaptation.
    “I forgot that's a crate.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Game with Brendan Hines (Ad-Free) · 0:19:00 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Jurassic Park (1993): 2 lines, within their own work

  1. industry (industry) · through Twister (1996), which they wrote: Jurassic Park ⇒ Twister (the host's read). Marketing a disaster around unknown leads follows Jurassic Park, where Sam Neill and Laura Dern were known but not famous.
    “coming off of Jurassic Park where it was like Sam Neil and Laura Dern were like well-known, but not famous.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:53:21 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (sequel-comparison) · through The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997), which they wrote: Jurassic Park ⇒ The Lost World: Jurassic Park (the host's read). The hosts judge the sequel as normalizing the dinosaurs too fast and dropping the wonder-before-terror structure of the original.
    “This movie normalizes the dinosaurs way too much.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:03:46 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Alien Resurrection (1997): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Jurassic Park (1993), which they wrote: Alien Resurrection ⇒ Jurassic Park (the host's read). Aliens caged and taunted while hunting you feels like the raptors; raptors may be Alien rip-offs.
    “the raptors have a bit of an alien rip off vibe, honestly”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:46:01 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

Beowulf adaptations: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The 13th Warrior (1999), which they wrote: Beowulf adaptations ⇒ The 13th Warrior (the host's read). The film is the Beowulf story told as Crichton's 'what was the real thing they were fighting' version.
    “Even going back to Crichton's original concept of like, what's the real story behind Beowulf?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior with David Lowery (Ad-Free) · 0:25:39 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)

Godzilla (1998): 1 line

  1. unmapped (intent) · through The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997), which they wrote: Godzilla ⇒ The Lost World: Jurassic Park (the host's read). A host suggests Spielberg wanted to make a Godzilla-style fun monster movie, which explains the San Diego ending.
    “I've always wanted to make like a Godzilla movie.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:26:03 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Industrial Light & Magic: 1 line

  1. industry (industry) · through Twister (1996), which they wrote: Industrial Light & Magic ⇒ Twister (the host's read). The movie was built out of an ILM proof-of-concept clip of a pickup truck driving toward a tornado.
    “It was a proof of concept clip from Industrial Light Magic”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:11:39 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Jaws (1975): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Twister (1996), which they wrote: Jaws ⇒ Twister (the host's read). Jonas is the Jaws-mayor archetype, a money-motivated antagonist that became a stock character in every movie.
    “The mayor in Jaws is the character that kind of pushes against our lead person.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:54:51 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

King Kong (2005): 1 line

  1. theme (plot trope) · through The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997), which they wrote: King Kong ⇒ The Lost World: Jurassic Park (the host's read). The T-Rex escaping a boat into a city is called a predictable King Kong move.
    “We've all seen King Kong.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:24:22 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Speed (1994): 1 line

  1. industry (industry) · through Twister (1996), which they wrote: Speed ⇒ Twister (the host's read). Hollywood shifted after Speed; Twister marketed Paxton and others as future stars.
    “The one that changed it was speed.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:54:13 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)

The Lost World (1912): 1 line

  1. lineage (homage) · through The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997), which they wrote: The Lost World ⇒ The Lost World: Jurassic Park (the host's read). Crichton's sequel novel pays homage to Doyle's 1912 Lost World about an island of dinosaurs.
    “the novelist has also decided to sort of pay homage to Arthur Conan Doyle's 1912 or whatever book, The Lost World.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:25:44 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001): 1 line

  1. unmapped (technology showed it was possible) · through Jurassic Park (1993), which they wrote: Jurassic Park ⇒ A.I. Artificial Intelligence (the host's read). The speaker says Kubrick, who first asked Spielberg to build a robot, saw Jurassic Park and reconsidered.
    “And then he sees Jurassic Park and he's once again like, well, wait a second.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:31:56 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Anaconda (1997): 1 line

  1. lineage (ripple effect) · through Jurassic Park (1993), which they wrote: Jurassic Park ⇒ Anaconda (the host's read). Anaconda is called the final lapping of the Jurassic Park creature-feature wave.
    “that's like the final lapping of the Jurassic Park ripple, sort of washing up on the beach.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:37:19 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Congo (1995): 1 line, within their own work

  1. unmapped (adapted) · them, directly: Michael Crichton ⇒ Congo (the host's read). Suggested as part of a Crichton adaptations series.
    “You do Congo.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Game with Brendan Hines (Ad-Free) · 0:19:02 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Disclosure: 1 line, within their own work

  1. unmapped (adapted) · them, directly: Michael Crichton ⇒ Disclosure (the host's read). The hosts note Disclosure is a Crichton book adaptation.
    “I forgot that's a crate.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Game with Brendan Hines (Ad-Free) · 0:19:00 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Jurassic Park (1993): 1 line, within their own work

  1. unmapped (adapted) · them, directly: Michael Crichton ⇒ Jurassic Park (the host's read). Named among the Crichton adaptations they could do another time.
    “we would not do Jurassic Park”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Game with Brendan Hines (Ad-Free) · 0:18:30 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Jurassic World (2015): 1 line

  1. unmapped (misreading) · through Jurassic Park (1993), which they wrote: Jurassic Park ⇒ Jurassic World (the host's read). Spielberg's line that the T-Rex is the hero of Jurassic Park was taken too literally by Trevorrow in Jurassic World.
    “Which Colin Trevor took way too literally in making Jurassic World.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:08:10 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Jurassic Park (1993), which they wrote: Jurassic Park ⇒ Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (the host's read). The sequels are a spinoff of Spielberg's imagination though he only executive produces them.
    “even though he's just an executive producer on those movies, it is this interesting spinoff of his imagination.”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:08:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)

Rising Sun: 1 line, within their own work

  1. unmapped (adapted) · them, directly: Michael Crichton ⇒ Rising Sun (the host's read). Suggested as part of a Crichton adaptations series.
    “You do Rising Sun.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Game with Brendan Hines (Ad-Free) · 0:18:57 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Sphere (1998): 1 line, within their own work

  1. unmapped (adapted) · them, directly: Michael Crichton ⇒ Sphere (the host's read). Suggested as part of a Crichton adaptations series.
    “You got to look at the sphere.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Game with Brendan Hines (Ad-Free) · 0:19:05 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

The 13th Warrior (1999): 1 line, within their own work

  1. lineage (lineage) · them, directly: Michael Crichton ⇒ The 13th Warrior (the host's read). Lowery read the Crichton novel and found the film is the book almost scene for scene.
    “reading the book, I was like, this is pretty much just scene for scene exactly what's on screen.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior with David Lowery (Ad-Free) · 0:19:51 · David Lowery (0.85 sure it was them)

The Andromeda Strain: 1 line, within their own work

  1. unmapped (adapted) · them, directly: Michael Crichton ⇒ The Andromeda Strain (the host's read). Suggested as part of a Crichton adaptations series.
    “It would be like Andromeda strain.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Game with Brendan Hines (Ad-Free) · 0:18:38 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997): 1 line, within their own work

  1. lineage (sequel-comparison) · through Jurassic Park (1993), which they wrote: Jurassic Park ⇒ The Lost World: Jurassic Park (the host's read). The hosts judge the sequel as normalizing the dinosaurs too fast and dropping the wonder-before-terror structure of the original.
    “This movie normalizes the dinosaurs way too much.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:03:46 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

The Terminal Man: 1 line, within their own work

  1. unmapped (adapted) · them, directly: Michael Crichton ⇒ The Terminal Man (the host's read). Suggested as part of a Crichton adaptations series.
    “I think we would do the terminal man”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Game with Brendan Hines (Ad-Free) · 0:18:38 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Timeline: 1 line, within their own work

  1. unmapped (adapted) · them, directly: Michael Crichton ⇒ Timeline (the host's read). Suggested as part of a Crichton adaptations series.
    “And then maybe do the 13th Warrior and Timeline.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Game with Brendan Hines (Ad-Free) · 0:19:12 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Titanic (1997): 1 line

  1. industry (industry) · through Twister (1996), which they wrote: Twister ⇒ Titanic (the host's read). Twister started a playbook of putting not-yet-A-list leads in a spectacle, which Titanic and later Star Wars followed.
    “It became a playbook for it.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:54:01 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)

Twister (1996): 1 line, within their own work

  1. industry (industry) · through Jurassic Park (1993), which they wrote: Jurassic Park ⇒ Twister (the host's read). Marketing a disaster around unknown leads follows Jurassic Park, where Sam Neill and Laura Dern were known but not famous.
    “coming off of Jurassic Park where it was like Sam Neil and Laura Dern were like well-known, but not famous.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:53:21 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Writing (21) everyone in writing

Directing (9) everyone in directing

What was said about them, by kind

career (1)

  1. career (career): Michael Crichton → Jurassic Park. Jurassic Park broke Crichton's long writer's block and began his second wave of Hollywood heat.
    “Jurassic Park, like, finally breaks the dam for him”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior with David Lowery (Ad-Free) · 0:39:53 · unknown (0.45 sure it was them)

contrast (1)

  1. contrast (contrast): Michael Crichton → John McTiernan. Crichton is literal in conveying information; McTiernan evokes. Their styles clashed on the reshoots.
    “Michael Creighton's a very literal minded man in the way he conveys information.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior with David Lowery (Ad-Free) · 1:19:52 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)

craft (3)

  1. craft (craft): John McTiernan → Michael Crichton. McTiernan and Crichton both journeymen in terms of signature style; McTiernan's strength is geography of an action scene.
    “McTiernan's like the god of I know how to communicate the geography of an action scene”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior with David Lowery (Ad-Free) · 0:22:25 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. craft (craft): Michael Crichton → Westworld (1973 film). Crichton as a director: well-crafted storyteller who serves his own screenplay, not a visionary visualist.
    “he directs them rather to protect his like screenplay.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior with David Lowery (Ad-Free) · 1:20:39 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. craft (craft): Westworld (1973 film) → Michael Crichton. Crichton's Westworld and Coma are straightforward even though about ludicrous things.
    “Westworld and Comer are kind of straightforward, even though they're about ludicrous things.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior with David Lowery (Ad-Free) · 1:20:43 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)

lineage (2)

  1. lineage (bad-source chain): Michael Crichton → David Koepp. The film flounders because it adapts a hastily written bad novel with a screenwriter the hosts consider weak.
    “Two, they were making it based off a really terrible book that was also made quickly.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:24:08 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (lineage): The 13th Warrior → Michael Crichton. Lowery read the Crichton novel and found the film is the book almost scene for scene.
    “reading the book, I was like, this is pretty much just scene for scene exactly what's on screen.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior with David Lowery (Ad-Free) · 0:19:51 · David Lowery (0.85 sure it was them)

people (4)

  1. people (people): The 13th Warrior → Michael Crichton. Crichton claimed final cut while McTiernan was still shooting his own version on the same lot.
    “Yeah, Crichton was like, I have final cut.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior with David Lowery (Ad-Free) · 1:01:40 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. people (people): Michael Crichton → Jerry Goldsmith. Crichton, who took control of the cut, replaced Graeme Revell's score with one from Jerry Goldsmith, whom he called his guy.
    “We're getting Jerry Goldsmith, who's like my guy and we'll give you swelling orchestral medieval music”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior with David Lowery (Ad-Free) · 1:02:39 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. people (directed): Michael Crichton → Coma. Douglas was in Coma, directed by Crichton.
    “Directed by Crichton?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Game with Brendan Hines (Ad-Free) · 0:17:55 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. people (directed): Michael Crichton → Looker. Crichton directed Looker.
    “Booker is his fifth movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Game with Brendan Hines (Ad-Free) · 0:18:04 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

theme (1)

  1. theme (theme): Species → Michael Crichton. The subgenre is described as getting a little Crichton in your life.
    “Yeah, get a little Crichton in your life.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:11:48 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

unmapped (8)

  1. unmapped (adapted): Michael Crichton → Jurassic Park. Named among the Crichton adaptations they could do another time.
    “we would not do Jurassic Park”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Game with Brendan Hines (Ad-Free) · 0:18:30 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (adapted): Michael Crichton → The Andromeda Strain. Suggested as part of a Crichton adaptations series.
    “It would be like Andromeda strain.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Game with Brendan Hines (Ad-Free) · 0:18:38 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. unmapped (adapted): Michael Crichton → The Terminal Man. Suggested as part of a Crichton adaptations series.
    “I think we would do the terminal man”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Game with Brendan Hines (Ad-Free) · 0:18:38 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. unmapped (adapted): Michael Crichton → Rising Sun. Suggested as part of a Crichton adaptations series.
    “You do Rising Sun.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Game with Brendan Hines (Ad-Free) · 0:18:57 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  5. unmapped (adapted): Michael Crichton → Disclosure. The hosts note Disclosure is a Crichton book adaptation.
    “I forgot that's a crate.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Game with Brendan Hines (Ad-Free) · 0:19:00 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  6. unmapped (adapted): Michael Crichton → Congo. Suggested as part of a Crichton adaptations series.
    “You do Congo.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Game with Brendan Hines (Ad-Free) · 0:19:02 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  7. unmapped (adapted): Michael Crichton → Sphere. Suggested as part of a Crichton adaptations series.
    “You got to look at the sphere.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Game with Brendan Hines (Ad-Free) · 0:19:05 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  8. unmapped (adapted): Michael Crichton → Timeline. Suggested as part of a Crichton adaptations series.
    “And then maybe do the 13th Warrior and Timeline.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Game with Brendan Hines (Ad-Free) · 0:19:12 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

verdict (1)

  1. verdict (verdict): Michael Crichton → Sphere. Sphere is the speaker's favorite Crichton book, and the film is compelling enough despite being half risible.
    “I like that book so much that I like that movie a lot.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior with David Lowery (Ad-Free) · 0:35:07 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Michael Crichton: Spielberg convinced Crichton to write a sequel novel even though Crichton said he did not write sequels, and Malcolm was revived from his death in the first book.
    “Mikey's like, I don't write sequels.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:16:32 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Michael Crichton: Title story: Crichton's neighbor, while he watered his lawn, said Eaters of the Dead sounded like schlocky horror, so Crichton called Disney for a classy title.
    “Michael Crichton was watering his lawn and his next door neighbor was like, so any more movies coming out of your books?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior with David Lowery (Ad-Free) · 0:04:10 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Michael Crichton: Photo of the 6 foot 9 Crichton towering over the Nordic Viking actors on set.
    “it is bizarre to see him towering over them.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior with David Lowery (Ad-Free) · 0:36:06 · unknown (0.45 sure it was them)