Michael Crichton Nothing Can Go Wrong First Books and First Films 1968-1973

A critical examination of Michael Crichton's books from 1968-1970, particularly through the lens of the media. "Nothing Can Go Wrong" focuses on his first book as Michael Crichton: "The Andromeda Strain," and the film adaptation directed by Robert Wise. It also covers his only book as Jeffrey Hudson, "A Case of Need," and his only book as Michael Douglas, "Dealing."
"Michael Crichton Nothing Can Go Wrong" explores the ironic nature of Crichton's phrase which he invented to advertise his fictitious world of Delos' "Westworld" - for would-be vacationers - as a theme park where nothing can go wrong. In Crichton's professional life the same phrase was a perfect illustration of his life as an author for three years after the publication of "The Andromeda Strain." The ultimate irony is that eventually everyone's life goes wrong because nothing is perfect.
Using more than a thousand quotes from newspapers, the media and Crichton's novels, as they embraced or rejected Michael Crichton's early books, Powers' book also explores the best and worst reviews of Crichton's works with deft humour and irony.
Crichton's mantra was that he had worked out where the pitfalls were in living life - real or fictional. Before Crichton's retirement from directing after Westworld it looked like Crichton had everything under control. The experience soured his view of the world when James Aubrey, the president of MGM, forced him to make Westworld under conditions which many experienced Hollywood executives and hardened crew members believed impossible.
Crichton wrote a dozen novels, four of which were made into four films between 1970 and 1974 as well as two original screenplays for "Extreme Close-Up" and "Westworld." Six films from his words in six years. Then, as perfectly calculated as a John Lange novel, Crichton's perfectly calculated world fell apart after "Westworld."
When he came out of retirement as a director five years later to make his second feature film, Coma, it was a moderate success. After that he was an average filmmaker with three consecutive film failures as writer or director from 1981-1989. He turned his back on directing and concentrated on writing for the second time in his life.
The rest is history: Jurassic Park, Disclosure, Rising Sun and "E.R." Crichton had the number one book, film and television show, all in the same year.
Crichton's novels explore the fact that even though technological advances assure human beings that science has everything under control, the reality is that there is no sure and certain path to perennial success. Failure could be waiting behind the next door you open.


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