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52 Years Ago Today, Warner Bros Failed Michael Crichton's Overlooked Masterpiece (But Kubrick Called it "Terrific")

Summary by ComicBook.com
While Stanley Kubrick might have loved Michael Crichton’s most underrated sci-fi movie, the adaptation was still buried thanks to Warner Bros.’ mishandling of its release. There are plenty of sci-fi movies that don’t live up to their literary source material, but just as many cases of sci-fi movies outdoing the books that inspired them. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s sci-fi classic Total Recall radically rewrote the bare-bones plot of author Philip K. …
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ComicBook.com broke the news on Friday, June 19, 2026.
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