Michael Crichton's Sphere is getting an HBO adaptation from the Westworld team

The Hollywood Reporter

Crichton's 1987 novel about a team of scientists who encounter a mysterious object a thousand feet under the ocean is being developed as a TV series from Westworld executive producer Denise Thé, who will serve as showrunner. Westworld creators Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan and Team Downey's Robert Downey Jr. and Susan Downey will also serve as executive producers. Crichton's novel was previously adapted as a 1998 Barry Levinson-directed feature film starring Dustin Hoffman, Sharon Stone and Samuel L. Jackson. According to HBO, Sphere "will plunge viewers 1,000 feet into the ocean, where a group of scientists confronts the surreal, beautiful, and deadly mysteries of the universe, only to find the people closest to us may prove to be the most alien."