It's bland and lifeless, which is a shame, because the book is pretty damn good.īack in the '90s, when Jurassic Park was all the rage, I got into a Crichton kick and read a bunch of his books.
Jackson, the 1998 Sphere movie is, to be blunt, terrible. Despite being directed by Barry Levinson and starring Dustin Hoffman, Sharon Stone, and Samuel L. Sadly, this often resulted in lackluster films, and Sphere is no exception. And, most startling, it appears to be at least three hundred years old, containing a terrifying and destructive force that must be controlled at all costs.Īfter Jurassic Park became such a phenomenon, producers and studios were eager to adapt other Crichton novels. It is a spaceship, but apparently it is undamaged by its fall from the sky. What they find defies their imaginations and mocks their attempts at logical explanation. Rushed to the scene is a team of American scientists who descend together into the depths to investigate the astonishing discovery. Published in 1987, Sphere was the brainchild of Jurassic Park author Michael Crichton, with the following synopsis: In the middle of the South Pacific, a thousand feet below the surface, a huge vessel is unearthed. Variety says a Sphere TV series is in the works at HBO, with Westworld's Denise Thé leading the way. Sphere is one of Crichton's better books, and it was previously adapted into a kind-of-terrible movie in 1998 starring Dustin Hoffman, Sharon Stone, and Samuel L. Westworld producer Denise Thé is handling the series, serving as showrunner, writer, and executive producer of this new adaptation. Sphere, Michael Crichton's sci-fi novel about an ancient alien spacecraft discovered on the ocean floor, is headed to HBO.