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<H2 itxtvisited="1">Spielberg & Crichton Go To "Latitudes"</H2>

By Garth Franklin Thursday August 27th 2009 04:58AM piratel_article.jpg?1251367796Steven Spielberg1606_magglass.gif is set to develop a film based on the late Michael Crichton's posthumously published novel "Pirate Latitudes" reports USA Today.

Set for release in bookstores around Thanksgiving, the adventure yarn is set off the coast of Jamaica in 1665.

The story involves 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.

Screenwriter David Koepp, who adapted Crichton's novels for Jurassic Park and its sequel "The Lost World1606_magglass.gif," also has signed on to write the script.

Spielberg plans to produce and is considering directing, but will wait on Koepp's script before making any decision.

The early 1970's and mid-late 1990's saw a wave of Crichton books becoming films as "The Andromeda Strain1606_magglass.gif," "The Terminal Man," "Congo," "Rising Sun," "Sphere," "Disclosure" and "Timeline".

However various novels of the late author remain on the shelf despite previous attempts to adapt some of them including "Airframe," "Prey," "Next" and his controversial "State of Fear".

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Forget the movie, I didn't know he had a pirate novel coming out! With Crichton's ability to make the most dense ideas palatable one wonders what he did with an easily comprehensible pop topic like pirates. Wiki says, "It is currently considered a spiritual successor to Crichton's other notable historical novel, The Great Train Robbery." I would hope it has more in common with his book Timeline which has some interesting insights and comments on the popular conception of the medieval world vs. the more-or-less scientifically-supported academic theories.

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Forget the movie, I didn't know he had a pirate novel coming out! With Crichton's ability to make the most dense ideas palatable one wonders what he did with an easily comprehensible pop topic like pirates. Wiki says, "It is currently considered a spiritual successor to Crichton's other notable historical novel, The Great Train Robbery." I would hope it has more in common with his book Timeline which has some interesting insights and comments on the popular conception of the medieval world vs. the more-or-less scientifically-supported academic theories.

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According to Jonathan Burnham, a publisher of an imprint of HarperCollins, the book was written concurrently with Crichton's most recent novel, Next. The novel stars a pirate named Hunter who, together with the governor of Jamaica, plots to raid a Spanish galleon for its treasure. Burnham goes on to say that it is "thoroughly researched...packed through with great detail about navigation and how pirates operated, and links between the New World and the Caribbean and Spain.”[1]

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Well, I'm excited. I wonder how finished it was? (Being an avid writer, I can tell you there are some things you get all excited about and write, only to find on the first read through that they just aren't suitable, so they sit on your hard drive, unfinished and languishing.)

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Well, I'm excited. I wonder how finished it was? (Being an avid writer, I can tell you there are some things you get all excited about and write, only to find on the first read through that they just aren't suitable, so they sit on your hard drive, unfinished and languishing.)

If it wasnt finished the publisher probally had it refined by a ghost writer

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Anyone wanting the new book should pre-order now - It's $9 as a pre-order on amazon.com -- $18 off the cover price.

http://www.amazon.com/Pirate-Latitudes-Novel-Michael-Crichton/dp/0061929379/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1256147497&sr=8-1

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I will admit, I held off on this book a good while. I had vowed never to buy another Michael Crichton book after I read "state of Fear" which was ham handed, clumsy and bluntly political.

Well he's dead so what the hell... I thought it was a great read!

Movie? Sure! I'll be there with bells on, or swords on or somethin'.

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This was a terrible book, big disappointment. Forget the fact that it's a raw manuscript...the story elements are trite. Everything in here you've seen in old pirate movies or already read in original period texts of Esquemeling, Dampier, etc. Characters, events, all pulled right from existing sources. This is one lazy ass book. Don't bother with it.

I only bothered to finish it to see how bad the ending was.

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This was a terrible book, big disappointment. Forget the fact that it's a raw manuscript...the story elements are trite. Everything in here you've seen in old pirate movies or already read in original period texts of Esquemeling, Dampier, etc. Characters, events, all pulled right from existing sources. This is one lazy ass book. Don't bother with it.

I only bothered to finish it to see how bad the ending was.

I have to admit I agree. I read it and its just all been done before. It seemed like a re-hash of Pirates of the Caribbean for the most part. The strangest part I thought was the fact he builds up this great bad guy then seems to kill him off way to easily halfway through the book. Wasn't impressed. They seriously need to bulk the story out to get a half decent movie out of it.

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This was a terrible book, big disappointment. Forget the fact that it's a raw manuscript...the story elements are trite. Everything in here you've seen in old pirate movies or already read in original period texts of Esquemeling, Dampier, etc. Characters, events, all pulled right from existing sources. This is one lazy ass book. Don't bother with it.

I only bothered to finish it to see how bad the ending was.

I have to admit I agree. I read it and its just all been done before. It seemed like a re-hash of Pirates of the Caribbean for the most part. The strangest part I thought was the fact he builds up this great bad guy then seems to kill him off way to easily halfway through the book. Wasn't impressed. They seriously need to bulk the story out to get a half decent movie o

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just finished this book myself. when i saw that the one of the crew was a complete clone of mary read i was kind of turned off.

everything everyone else has said is true but in spite of it...

i still enjoyed reading it.

I guess I`m just that desperate for pirate related material

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