Following the success of Westworld on HBO, Amblin Entertainment is looking to bring another of Michael Crichton’s projects to the screen, with Deadline reporting that Joachim Ronning (Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales) is in talks to direct an adaptation of Crichton’s final novel Micro.
Penned by Darren Lemke (Goosebumps), with Frank Marshall producing, Micro is a high-concept thriller which follows “a group of graduate students lured to Hawaii to work for a mysterious biotech company — only to find themselves miniaturized and cast out into the rainforest, with nothing but their scientific expertise and wits to protect them.”
Ronning, who helmed the latest Pirates movie with his Kon-Tiki co-director Espen Sandberg, has recently directed the ABC drama pilot Doomsday, and is also attached to Methusaleh, a drama which has Tom Cruise attached.
Originally published April 9, 2017. Updated April 15, 2018.
