Michael Crichton bibliography

Michael Crichton bibliography

Michael Crichton (1942–2008) was an American novelist and screenwriter. He wrote 29 novels and his books have sold over 200 million copies worldwide, and over a dozen have been adapted into films.

Film and television

Film

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Producer	Notes
1973	Extreme Close-Up	No	Yes	No
Westworld	Yes	Yes	No
1978	Coma	Yes	Yes	No
1978	The Great Train Robbery	Yes	Yes	No	Also based on his novel
1981	Looker	Yes	Yes	No
1984	Runaway	Yes	Yes	No
1989	Physical Evidence	Yes	No	No
1993	Jurassic Park	No	Yes	No	Also based on his novel
Rising Sun	No	Yes	No
1994	Disclosure	No	No	Yes
1996	Twister	No	Yes	Yes
1998	Sphere	No	No	Yes	Also based on his novel
1999	The 13th Warrior	Uncredited	No	Yes	Uncredited reshoots Director Also based on his novel

Television

<table><thead><tr><th>Year</th><th>Title</th><th>Director</th><th>Writer</th><th>Executive Producer</th><th>Notes</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>1971–1974</td><td>Insight</td><td>No</td><td>Yes</td><td>No</td><td>Episodes "The War of the Eggs", "Killer" & "The Theft"</td></tr><tr><td>1972</td><td>Pursuit</td><td>Yes</td><td>No</td><td>No</td><td>TV movie Also based on his 1972 novel "Binary"</td></tr><tr><td>1994–2009</td><td>ER</td><td>No</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td><td>Also creator</td></tr></tbody></table>

Derivative works

Films based on Crichton's novels

Year	Title	Director
1971	The Andromeda Strain	Robert Wise
1972	Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues	Paul Williams
The Carey Treatment (A Case of Need)	Blake Edwards
1974	The Terminal Man	Mike Hodges
1979	The First Great Train Robbery	Michael Crichton
1993	Jurassic Park	Steven Spielberg
Rising Sun	Philip Kaufman
1994	Disclosure	Barry Levinson
1995	Congo	Frank Marshall
1997	The Lost World: Jurassic Park	Steven Spielberg
1998	Sphere	Barry Levinson
1999	The 13th Warrior (Eaters of the Dead)	John McTiernan
2001	Jurassic Park III (based on characters created by Crichton)	Joe Johnston
2003	Timeline	Richard Donner
2015	Jurassic World (based on characters created by Crichton)	Colin Trevorrow
2018	Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (based on characters created by Crichton)	J. A. Bayona
2022	Jurassic World Dominion (based on characters created by Crichton)	Colin Trevorrow
2025	Jurassic World Rebirth (based on characters created by Crichton)	Gareth Edwards

Sequel to Crichton's film

Year	Title	Director
1976	Futureworld (sequel to Westworld)	Richard T. Heffron
2024	Twisters (based on characters created by Crichton; sequel to Twister)	Lee Isaac Chung

Television series based on Crichton's films

Year	Title	Network	Producers
1980	Beyond Westworld	CBS	Lou Shaw
2016–2022	Westworld	HBO	J. J. Abrams, Jonathan Nolan, Lisa Joy

Novels adapted into television series

<table><thead><tr><th>Year</th><th>Title</th><th>Network</th><th>Producers</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>2008</td><td>The Andromeda Strain</td><td>A&E Network</td><td>Ridley Scott, Tony Scott, Mikael Salomon</td></tr></tbody></table>

In development

Year	Title	Network	Producers
TBA	Dragon Teeth	National Geographic	TBA
TBA	Sphere	HBO	TBA