Undoubtedly,
Jurassic Park is what made Michael Crichton most famous. He wrote the novel and
a sequel The Lost World (the only case in which he wrote a sequel to one of his
works), got involved in the screenwriting of the movie and is credited as
creator of the characters in all five sequel films that completed the
franchise. The second film took the title of his second novel, but followed a
completely different storyline. Long before Jurassic World was chosen to be the
title for the second trilogy, an edition of both novels in one volume used this
title.
A short film was set between JW: Fallen Kingdom and JW: Dominion, titled Battle at Big Rock. It shows dinosaurs roaming free and attacking a camping site, as a consequence of the liberation of the dinosaurs at the end of the 5th film:
Michael Crichton's contribution to the popularization of paleontology was honored by the scientific community by naming a dinosaur after him: the Crichtonsaurus Bohlini:
More about this dinsoaur: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crichtonsaurus
The Jurassic Park phenomenon sparked an incredible range of merchandise, toys, games, apparel, clothing, gadgets and collector items that are still today popular and very much part of popular culture everywhere.
