The Most Iconic Book-to-Film Adaptations in the History of Cinema

2. Jurassic Park

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The film is based on the 1990 science fiction novel by Michael Crichton. Jurassic Park was an achievement in major league filmmaking. Like Star Wars before it, the film was a quantum leap in visual effects — both physical and CGI. One of the greatest pure adventure movies in Spielberg’s celebrated canon, Jurassic Park was representative of the spectacle we’ve come to expect in the traditional “blockbuster” movie.