Spielberg buys Crichton's Pirates

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Director Steven Spielberg has acquired the film rights to Michael Crichton's final novel, Pirate Latitudes.

The Oscar-winner is set to produce and possibly direct the adventure film, set in 17th Century Jamaica.

Spielberg previously directed Crichton's Jurassic Park and The Lost World, and also collaborated on long-running medical drama ER.

Pirate Latitudes is set to be published on 24 November. The author died last November of cancer aged 66.

The novel, which takes place in 1665, is about a daring plan to infiltrate Port Royal, one of the world's richest and most notorious cities, and raid a Spanish galleon filled with treasure.

"Michael Crichton was one of our greatest storytellers who expanded all of our imaginations with his books, films, and television," Spielberg said.

"With the ER and Jurassic Park series, I enjoyed one of the best collaborations of my career. Now with Pirate Latitudes, I have the chance to be excited about bringing this new Michael Crichton work to the screen."

David Koepp, who wrote the film versions of Crichton's dinosaur novels, has also signed on to adapt the book.

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Sounds promising, I loves me some pirate films

 

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As overrated as I believe they both are, I hope Spielberg doesn't screw this up. Jurassic Park was one of the first novels I ever read. That, and the Narnia series.