Jurassic Park is one of Steven Spielberg’s greatest classics, but James Cameron also wanted to direct the film adaptation.
Today, James Cameron is dedicated to the Avatar franchise, but the filmmaker is behind iconic films of the 80s and 90s, like The Terminator, Aliens, The Extraction, True Lies and Titanic, and he almost didn’t direct Jurassic Park, the Steven Spielberg classic released in 1993.
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Before Avatar, James Cameron almost made Jurassic Park “for 18 and over” – and lost to Spielberg
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In “Jurassic Park: The Ultimate Visual History” (via Syfy), James Cameron revealed that I wanted to adapt the book by Michael Crichtonbut he was slow to read it and Steven Spielberg beat him to it, bringing the work to the big screen.
“I received (the Jurassic Park book) on a Friday evening. I didn’t read it on Friday evening. I started reading it on Saturday. I got to the scene where the Tyrannosaurus rex is licking the windshield with the children inside… I said, ‘I have to make this movie.’ I haven’t even finished the book. I called (and was told), “Steven just bought it.”“Cameron recalled.
At the time, several Hollywood directors and studios were competing for the rights to Jurassic Park, including Tim Burton (Warner Bros.), Richard Donner (Columbia Pictures) and Joe Dante (20th Century Fox). In the end, Spielberg did the…
Original article published in QuandoCinema
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