Joachim Ronning, one-half of the two who are directing the upcoming Disney film, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, is in negotiations to direct Amblin Entertainment’s adaptation of Michael Crichton’s last novel, Micro. The book tells the story of “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 rain forest, with nothing but their scientific expertise and wits to protect them.”
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