![]() ![]() These characters, while brilliant in their respective fields, are nondescript and almost disposable as individuals. To aid in the verisimilitude, Wise cast only character actors, with no big star to play a dashing hero who will clearly save the day. The film version of 'The Andromeda Strain' takes a cue from the book by presenting its story as a factual docudrama based on Classified reports – even though it's actually fictional, obviously. ![]() A young writer still trying to build his reputation could hardly ask for a better turn of luck. ![]() It hit the bestseller lists and caught the attention of Hollywood, which jumped quickly to produce a movie adaptation helmed by no less than multiple Oscar winner Robert Wise (' West Side Story', ' The Sound of Music'). The medically-themed science fiction thriller 'The Andromeda Strain' was the first novel Crichton published under his own real name. ![]() Eventually, he grew disillusioned with a career in medicine and transitioned to writing full time. Long before he became the creator of ' Jurassic Park' or its attendant movie franchise, Michael Crichton was a med student at Harvard who wrote potboiler paperback thrillers on the side under a couple of pseudonyms so that his professors wouldn't know how he wasted his free time between classes. ![]()
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