Back in April we talked about two novels that Harper Collins had the rights two from the late Michael Crichton. One was a then unnamed novel described as a “technological thriller”, but the other, Pirate Latitudes, is now being prepped by Steven Spielberg as a feature film according to USA Today.
According to Dreamworks, Pirate Latitudes is:
“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.”
“It’s a mission movie, and we see it through the prism of what it might have been like to live on the island during that time,”
Set off the coast of 1655 Jamaica, Spielberg is currently said to be ‘developing’ the film with a possible eye on directing it. Obviously, Spielberg has been behind Crichton adaptations before, blowing a generation’s mind with Jurassic Park. Already brought in to write the screenplay is David Koepp, who has adapted other rather high profile books like Jurassic Park, Angel and Demons, and War of the Worlds. He also adapted Lost World which was meh. Most recently you’ve seen his work in The Taking of Pelham 123 .
You can’t go wrong with pirates!
