Typically refers to the Jurassic Park franchise, a series of books, films and video games originating with the 1990 Michael Crichton novel, Jurassic Park. The series are centers on a fictional theme park on an island where dinosaurs have been restored through various genetic engineering techniques, but where mishaps have led to them escaping into the wild, where some pose a threat to humans. This is also a 1993. American science is fiction action film directed by Steven Spielberg and the first of the Jurassic Park franchise.