ERUPTION BESTSELLER FROM MICHAEL CRICHTON AND JAMES PATTERSON TO GET A BIG MOVIE ADAPTATION

  CRICHTON'S ERUPTION  

TO GET A BIG MOVIE ADAPTATION

After the latest Jurassic Park movie scored over 300 million bucks around the world just last weekend, another of Michael Crichston's popular

The book will be adapted by Sony

 books will be getting a big screen adaptation. According to Deadline, Sony paid a seven figure sum for ERUPTION which Crichton started writing before he died back in 2008 so the task was then given to James Patterson to complete the novel  which follows a history-making volcano explosion that is about to wipe away the big island of Hawaii. However, a secret held for decades by the U.S. military is far more terrifying than any volcano. Crichton and Patterson have together sold more than 700 million books around the globe to date. Kaz and Ryan Firpo are writing the script. 

SF TUESDAY: MICHAEL CRICHTON'S 'MICRO' MOVIE ADAPTATION! 'KING KONG SKULL ISLAND' FEMALE LEAD TV SERIES! DAN STEVENS' 'KILL SWITCH' SF MOVIE POSTER

MICHAEL CRICHTON'S 'MICRO'

TO BE TURNED INTO A MOVIE

Sf and fantasy adaptations today, people, beginning with Michael Crichton's MICRO which is supposed to be directed by Joachim Ronning. Crichton's last written novel, finished by Richard Preston after his death, 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. Ronning, who finished the latest instalment of Pirates of the Caribbean is also set to helm Tom Cruise in Methuselah epic movie.

 'KING KONG SKULL ISLAND'

FEMALE LEAD TV SERIES!
While some parts of the world are still enjoying the latest Tom Hiddleston lead big screen adaptation of KING KONG SKULL ISLAND, a television series with the same title is also in the works but with a female lead! Based on Merian C. Cooper’s King Kong and DeVito ArtWorks’ Skull Island it will have a female-led, multicultural ensemble that delves into the wonders and horrors of Skull Island and its origins.

'KILL SWITCH' POSTER

FOR A DAN STEVENS SF MOVIE

Speaking of sf, check out the first poster for sf action adventure KILL SWITCH which will see Beauty and the Beast star Dan Stevens playing  a pilot who battles to save his family and the planet after an experiment for unlimited energy goes wrong. Also known as REDIVIDER, it will also star Berenice Marlohe.