Spielberg Directing Crichton’s Pirate Latitudes
DreamWorks Studios has acquired the film rights to Michael Crichton‘s action-adventure novel Pirate Latitudes. Steven Spielberg and David Koepp have signed on for the project.
Spielberg, who directed Koepp’s adaptations of Crichton’s Jurassic Park and The Lost World, will produce the film and possibly direct. Koepp will adapt the novel for film.
Pirate Latitudes, which takes place in 1665, is about a daring plan to infiltrate Port Royal, one of the world’s riches and most notorious cities, and raid a Spanish galleon filled with treasure.
HarperCollins will publish the novel, which Crichton’s assistant found in a completed manuscript after his death last November.
SOURCE: THR
