PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN 5 Director Joachim Rønning Eyed To Helm Film Adaptation Of Michael Crichton's MICRO
Last week, news broke that Amblin Entertainment had entered negotiations with Joachim Rønning to helm their film adaptation of Micro, the final novel written by the acclaimed Michael Crichton.
Deadline confirmed last week that Joachim Rønning had entered final negotiations with Amblin Entertainment to take the helm of their upcoming film adaptation of Micro, the final novel written by the acclaimed Michael Crichton.
After Crichton's death in 2008, Micro was left unfinished, but after a careful selection process, it was later completed by The Hot Zone author Richard Preston and spent over twenty weeks atop bestseller lists worldwide. The high-concept thriller follows a group of graduate students that are lured to Hawaii to work for a mysterious biotech company where they find themselves miniaturized and cast out into the deadly rainforest.
Production is expected to start this fall. Universal will be distributing the feature and are hoping to a launch a new franchise with Micro, in the same vein as the blockbuster success they achieved with another Crichton novel, Jurassic Park.
Darren Lemke (Goosebumps) is penning the script while Frank Marshall (Jurassic World 2) is producing and Sherri Crichton & Laurent Bouzereau are onboard as executive producers. Additionally, while he wasn't listed as a producer, Steven Spielberg should be involved in some capacity as this has been a passion project of his for years. His Amblin studio also owns the rights to another Crichton posthumous release Pirate Latitudes.
Rønning is coming in hot after co-directing Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, which received an extremely strong reception at CinemaCon earlier this month. He also has the biblical epic Methusaleh on the docket with Tom Cruise (The Mummy) attached to star.
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