Michael Crichton
John McTiernan
GoldSmith

MICHAEL CRICHTON (Based on the Novel by/Producer) is globally heralded as one of the pre-eminent writers and storytellers of our time. He is an award-winning and best-selling author, screenwriter, director and producer whose works of fiction have sold millions of copies around the world, and have translated into some of the highest-grossing and most captivating films in history. He is the best-selling author of the novels Eaters of the Dead, Airframe, Jurassic Park, The Lost World, Disclosure, Rising Sun, Congo, Sphere, The Great Train Robbery, The Terminal Man and The Andromeda Strain. As a co-screenwriter, his films include "Jurassic Park," its sequel "The Lost World," as well as "Rising Sun." Of the six films he has directed, Crichton was director/screenwriter for "Westworld," "Coma" and, from his own novel, the film adaptation of The Great Train Robbery. He recently served as producer/screenwriter of "Disclosure," and as co-screenwriter with his wife, Anne-Marie Martin, of "Twister." He is a two-time recipient of the Mystery Writers of America�s Edgar Award for The Great Train Robbery, and A Case of Need, written under the pseudonym Jeffrey Hudson. He won the Association of American Medical Writers Award for the non-fiction book Five Patients. Crichton also wrote the non-fiction books Travels, Electronic Life and Jasper Johns. His novels have been translated into more than twenty languages and have earned him a worldwide following. Sometimes dubbed by journalists as the inventor and champion of the "techno-thriller" genre, Crichton has drawn upon his medical background as a graduate of the Harvard Medical School for several novels, and for creating the hit television series "ER." A more deteailed biography can be found at www.crichton-official.com.