A 1995 sequel novel, The Lost World, was followed by a film adaptation in 1997. The film received a theatrical 3D re-release in 2013 and was selected in 2018 for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". The book was successful, as was Steven Spielberg 's 1993 film adaptation. It began in 1990 when Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment bought the rights to Crichton's novel Jurassic Park before it was published. Jurassic Park, later also referred to as Jurassic World, is an American science fiction media franchise created by Michael Crichton and centered on a disastrous attempt to create a theme park of cloned dinosaurs.