Steven Spielberg, Dreamworks picks up Michael Crichton’s ‘Micro’

Although Steven Spielberg had such incredible success adapting the two Jurassic Park novels by Michael Crichton, the director has yet to bring another one of the famed author’s works to the screen. However, that could change, since his Dreamworks Studios has picked up Crichton’s posthumously published Micro.

The book was published in 2011, three years after Crichton died. He did not finish the novel, so author Richard Preston (The Hot Zone) put the finishing touches on the story. As Variety notes, the plot centers on graduate students lured to Hawaii, where they find themselves shrunk by a biotech company and are sent to a rainforest.

Prolific producer Frank Marshall, who is just coming off the success of Jurassic World, is set to produce. CrichtonSun LLC’s Sherri Crichton and Laurent Bouzereau are executive producing.

“We are so pleased to have this opportunity to develop Micro,” Spielberg said in a statement to TheWrap. “For Michael, size did matter whether it was for Jurassic’s huge dinosaurs or Micro’s infinitely tiny humans.”

Dreamworks also has the rights to Crichton’s Pirate Latitudes, another novel published after the author died.

No director or writer was assigned to Micro yet.