Amblin is Adapting the Final Novel of Michael Crichton, MICRO, and Joachim Rønning will Direct

Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment is developing Michael Crichton's final novel, Micro, to the big screen and they are hiring director Joachim Rønning to helm the project. Rønning is an extremely talented filmmaker who co-directed films such as Kon-Tiki and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man Tell No Tales. Micro sounds like it will be a perfect project for him to take on.

Crichton is the same guy who introduced us to Jurassic Park and the studio is hoping to launch another Jurassic Park scale franchise with this story. It's definitely a great story that will certainly make for an entertaining adventurous film.

The novel is a high-concept thriller that 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."

This has been a passion project for Spielberg, who also brought in frequent collaborator Frank Marshall to produce. He's also brought on Goosebumps screenwriter Darren Lemke to write the script.

Amblin wants to start shooting the film this fall. Here's the description from the book:

In the vein of Jurassic Park, this high-concept thriller follows a group of graduate students lured to Hawaii to work for a mysterious biotech company—only to find themselves cast out into the rain forest, with nothing but their scientific expertise and wits to protect them. An instant classic, Micro pits nature against technology in vintage Crichton fashion. Completed by visionary science writer Richard Preston, this boundary-pushing thriller melds scientific fact with pulse-pounding fiction to create yet another masterpiece of sophisticated, cutting-edge entertainment.