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.

By RohanPatel - Apr 14, 2017 08:04 AM EST

Filed Under: Sci-Fi

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.

So, what do you guys think? Sound off with your thoughts below!

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17 Comments

Desrow - 4/14/2017, 8:52 AM

McGee - 4/14/2017, 9:07 AM

BlackIceJoe - 4/14/2017, 9:04 AM

This is cool, but I wish someone would turn the hard R book Pirates Latitude into a movie too.

BlackIceJoe - 4/14/2017, 12:28 PM

@KingPatel - I hope if Steven does make that movie he'll keep it being a R movie, over turning it into a PG-13 movie like he did with Jurassic Park.

I'm not saying Jurassic Park wasn't good, it just was watered down for the kids.

So I don't want want to see a more child friendly version, because I want to see a movie that shows how deadly pirates were, and don't have Supernatual characters added.

stephhurry - 4/14/2017, 9:05 AM

New Star Wars trailer is already out, that was fast

CaptDeadpool - 4/14/2017, 9:30 AM

Not one of Crichton's best books but could make a cool movie

CurlyBill - 4/14/2017, 11:12 AM

I've beem wanting to read some of crichtons books, anyone got any suggestion? Thats not Jurassic park.

Mamamartha - 4/14/2017, 11:18 AM

@CurlyBill - congo

soberchimera - 4/14/2017, 11:49 AM

Sounds like a cool concept, heard the book wasn't that genre at though.

RancidBane - 4/14/2017, 8:31 PM

Never read this book. But I have read the jurassic park books and loved those bad boys. I trust that the source material is probably great. I know absolutely nothing about this director so I am not sure how to feel.

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.

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