Back in 2015 it was announced that Amblin Entertainment had secured the rights to Micro, the final novel from the late Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park, Westworld), and now comes word from Deadline that the project has enlisted new writers.
Neil Widener and Gavin James (Liberty Road, Battle of Alcatraz) have signed on to work on the screenplay for the techno-thriller, which has a previous draft from Darren Lemke (Goosebumps). Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales and Maleficent II director Joachim Ronning was reported to be in talks to direct back in 2017, but a deal failed to materialise.
Micro was published posthumously in 2011 and “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.”
Frank Marshall is producing the project for Steven Spielberg’s Amblin, with Sherri Crichton and Laurent Bouzereau of CrichtonSun executive producing.
