Timeline (franchise)

Timeline of the Jurassic Park Franchise:

November
Jurassic Park: The Game, is an episodic, downloadable third-person adventure video game currently being developed by Telltale Games that is based on the Jurassic Park franchise. The game was originally announced in June 2010 before being revealed in the February issue of Game Informer. The first episode is expected for release in April 2011.

Devils in the Desert
The legendary John Byrne brings his talents to the world of Jurassic Park and the results have never been more terrifying! Sheriff Tobias suddenly has more on his plate than he can handle when he is confronted with numerous cattle mutilations and the disappearance of a local farmer. Tensions escalate as the Feds arrive on the scene and the mysterious predators make their presence known! This series follows Jurassic Park: Redemption.

August

 * Jurassic Park mobile game was released by Gameloft.

1995
Release of the documentary film The Real Jurassic Park.

September

 * The Lost World Novel written by Michael Crichton is the sequel to the best seller Jurassc Park was published. Six years after surviving the disaster on Jurassic Park, eccentric mathematician Ian Malcolm and spoiled, rich genius Richard Levine are researching InGen's mysterious Site B, and its exact location, after learning of its existence. Site B, an island named Isla Sorna, was the secret "production factory" for Jurassic Park, where dinosaur stock were hatched and grown, before shipment to Isla Nublar.

June

 * 11 Release of the movie. The story involves scientists visiting an amusement park of genetically engineered dinosaurs on an island over one weekend. Sabotage sets the carnivorous dinosaurs on the loose, and the technicians and visitors attempt to escape the island. The film stars Sam Neill, Jeff Goldblum, Laura Dern and Richard Attenborough.

March

 * The copy of an early version of Michael Crichton's dinosaur novel reached Steven Spielberg and the production of a movie adaption began.

November

 * Publication of the Jurassic Park novel written by Michael Crichton. Paleontologist Alan Grant and his paleobotanist graduate student Ellie Sattler are abruptly whisked away by billionaire John Hammond (founder and CEO of International Genetic Technologies, or InGen) for a weekend visit to a "biological preserve" he has established on an island 120 miles west off the coast of Costa Rica.

1989
Michael Crichton is working on the first Jurassic Park novel.

October

 * 23 John Michael Crichton is born