Collier Jennings is a writer for Collider who focuses on science fiction, comics, and television. He also writes for AIPT Comics.
Michael Crichton is one of the few authors who's consistently seen his work adapted to the big screen. Sometimes, the results are great; Jurassic Park gave birth to a long-running movie franchise . Sometimes, they aren't: despite having the considerable talents of Richard Donner, Timeline turned out to be a major flop. But one adaptation has flown under the radar: Sphere.
In fact, Sphere wouldn't have been able to sell its twisty mystery without the involvement of Hoffman, Stone, and Jackson. All three actors perfectly capture the curiosity of a scientist in their respective performances, but also the paranoia that comes with being at the bottom of the sea, inches away from a mysterious piece of technology that they don't know anything about.
Posts 1 The end result led to a critical drubbing — with Roger Ebert referring to it as a"watered-down take on the sci-fi classic Solaris" — and bombing at the box office. Ironically, one review of Sphere wound up influencing Levinson's next film. He reveals that he wrote and directed Liberty Heights when Entertainment Weekly's Lisa Schwatzbaum wrote a paragraph arguing that Norman Goodman was"the empathetic Jewish psychologist.""For days it troubled me.
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