Michael crichton the 13th warrior7/5/2023 ![]() ![]() Based on Crichton’s 1976 novel Eaters of the Dead, which retold the story of Beowulf as witnessed through the eyes of real-life 10 th century traveling scholar Ahmad Ibn Fadlan, McTiernan’s adaptation obscures the novel’s intriguing premise with a bunch of admittedly well-shot medieval action sequences and a storyline that is closer to Seven Samuraithan an Old English epic poem. the worst Michael Crichton adaptation ever, sits John McTiernan’s The 13 th Warrior. ![]() ![]() Sandwiched between the embarrassing 80s/90s white male politics of Rising Sun and Disclosure (“The real villains are powerful women and the Japanese!”) and the general terribality of Richard Donner’s 2003 film Timeline, a.k.a. Crichton, Jurassic Park the film is completely different from the source novel, and Crichton’s draft of the screenplay was massively rewritten by David Koepp.) Philip Kaufman’s Rising Sun, Frank Marshall’s Congo, and Barry Levinson’s one-two punch of Disclosureand Sphereall threw their hats into the ring as Hollywood followed the mistaken assumption that the secret behind Jurassic Park’s success was in any way connected to Crichton’s writing. The second half of the 1990s tried as hard as it could to make every single Michael Crichton novel into a blockbuster motion picture after the record-breaking success of Jurassic Park. ![]()
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