Michael Crichton & James Patterson Bestseller ‘Eruption’ Being Adapted By Kaz & Ryan Firpo For Sony

Michael Crichton & James Patterson Bestseller ‘Eruption’ Being Adapted By Kaz & Ryan Firpo For Sony

EXCLUSIVE: Following Jurassic World Rebirth‘s $322 million-plus global opening weekend, Sony has hired writers Kaz Firpo and Ryan Firpo to adapt Eruption, the No. 1 New York Times bestseller from Michael Crichton and James Patterson. At the same time, we understand that the project, which Sony won in a competitive auction last summer in a major deal, is […]

Eruption | Jurassic World hits (again), another Michael Crichton book gets moving

Eruption, a volcano thriller from the late Michael Crichton, is moving at Sony Pictures with new screenwriters now hired. The weekend box office of Jurassic World Rebirth suggests there’s a hell of a lot of life in dinosaurs yet. And just as the success of 1993’s Jurassic Park had Hollywood studios looking at some of the author’s other work, so history is repeating itself. In the 1990s, following Jurassic Park, the mighty Congo finally lumbered …

Little, Brown’s Bestseller “Eruption” by Michael Crichton & James Patterson Picked Up as Highly Anticipated Sony Adaptation

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Eruption: Michael Crichton & James Patterson adaptation finds writers, loses directors

Author Michael Crichton passed away in 2008, but several of his novels have been published years after his death. Pirate Latitudes came along in 2009, Micro (which was completed by Richard Preston) followed in 2011, Dragon Teeth (originally written in 1974) was published in 2017, and last year brought the best-seller Eruption, which was completed by James Patterson. The book reached store shelves in June of 2024, and by the end of the month an E…