Walter Thompson - bringing together two of the biggest and most successful wordsmiths to collaborate on an unfinished Crichton manuscript. The first deal by the restructured CrichtonSun was the publishing partnership with James Patterson - who also moonlighted as an author while building to CEO of the ad agency J. She signed the company and the book catalog with Shane Salerno at The Story Factory, and the intention is to generate new adaptation of her late husband’s work in film, TV and publishing. The propulsion here is CrichtonSun CEO Sherri Crichton, the author’s widow, who has overhauled the company in recent months. These books birthed a great writing career. At the time, becoming an author was Crichton’s dream, though he had the smarts to be a doctor. The subjects range from secret treasures to heists, archaeology, unlikely heroes, classic villains and seductive and at times treacherous lovers. Some of these novels touched on the science sandbox he wrote in later on but with pulpy, crime-thriller twists.Īll the books are set in the late 1960s and ’70s and were in a way his tribute to Ian Fleming’s James Bond novels, and to one of his favorite Alfred Hitchcock films, To Catch a Thief.
Perhaps Crichton didn’t want to mix writing prescriptions and prose, but he used the John Lange pseudonym for Odds On (1966), Scratch One (1967), Easy Go (1968), Zero Cool (1969), The Venom Business (1969), Drug of Choice (1970), Grave Descend (1970) and Binary (1972). The eight books comprise unconnected tales of fiction in numerous genres and will be shopped to studios and streamers for potential film/television adaptations. This side pursuit also came prior to his first breakout novel done under the Crichton name, 1971’s The Andromeda Strain. This was long before Jurassic Park, ER and such, and he wrote the first three titles while matriculating at Harvard Medical School.
Now, the estate of the author who died in 2008 has made another major deal to bring his work back to new audiences.īlackstone Publishing has made a seven-figure deal with CrichtonSun to acquire the worldwide print, eBook and audiobook rights to Crichton’s first series of novels, which he wrote under the pseudonym John Lange. Michael Crichton’s brilliant mix of science and narrative resulted in north of $10 billion in film and TV revenue and 250 million books sold.
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