From Pirates to Microhumans
For the first time moviegoers got acquainted with the work of the writer Michael Crichton back in 1971, when the film "The Andromeda Strain" was released. In the 90s in Hollywood there was a real boom of paintings based on the writer's novels - "Jurassic Park", "Congo", "Rising Sun", "Exposure", "Sphere", "Thirteenth Warrior".A couple of years ago, in the wake of Jurassic World's success, Amblin Entertainment acquired the adaptation rights to Crichton's latest work, and now the project finally has a director. As it became known to the site Deadline , negotiations to head the shooting of the film "Micro" are being held by Joaquim Ronning . The screenplay is by Darren Lemke (Horror). During his lifetime, Crichton did not manage to finish the novel, but after the author's death, Richard Preston Jr. continued his work. The book was published in 2011 and was on the bestseller list for quite a long time.It is about a group of students traveling to Hawaii to work for a mysterious biotech company. However, when the guys reach their destination, they find themselves in a terrible situation - they are reduced to microscopic sizes and thrown into the jungle, where their only weapons are scientific knowledge and ingenuity.The source writes that the leadership of Amblin views the project as the start of a new franchise like Jurassic Park .  Joaquim Ronning is just starting his independent career in directing - before that he always worked in tandem with Espen Sandberg. The duo shot such films as "Bandits", "Max Manus. Man of War "," Kon-Tiki ", as well as the fifth" Pirates of the Caribbean ". Ronning recently completed the filming of the Doomsday pilot for ABC , and his future projects include the biblical epic Methuselah. The Topic of Article: From Pirates to Microhumans. |
