After Jurasic World's Success, Steven Spielberg Is Looking On Another Crichton Novel Film Adaptation

After the commercial success of Steven Spielberg's Jurassic World, the multi awarded producer is again looking at another Crichton novel that has a potential to break records like what the Jurassic films have done in the market. Cinemablend reported that Spielberg and his team is currently developing another Crichton novel but is billion years away from dinosaurs.

According to reports, Spielberg's DreamWorks Studios has acquired rights on Michael Crichton's novel Micro. The novel gained popularity as it was Crichton's last novel before he died. Crichton wasn't able to finish the novel as he was still in the process in finalizing the movie when he died in 2008. Another writer finished Crichton's novel and it was commercially released in 2011.

Micro is a novel about a team of graduate students who make their way to Hawaii after being hired by a mysterious biotech company. Unfortunately, while in pursuit of their work, things have gone through series of wrong turns and made the team lost in the middle of a vast rainforest. Another thing is that the graduate students have shrunk down to tiny sizes that made them vulnerable to spiders, bugs, snakes, ants, etc.)

As of this writing, Micro is still in its early stage but Spielberg and Jurassic fans are already clamoring for plot lines or teasers from the multi-million generating team.

Jurassic World on the other hand, as per RealtyToday, has officially broke the box office record as it reached $511 million blockbuster success stomping San Andreas and Spy during its official opening week. In China alone, the 4th installment of the film booked a total of $100 million on its opening week while UK and Ireland have $29.6 million. South Korea on the other hand has $14.4 million and Mexico recorded $16.2 million. To add, France booked its total sales at $12.5 million.

The Jurassic World will also hit the Japanese audience on August 5th, which is again expected to book high numbers in sales.

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