Will Thorne Staff WriterHBO is plotting a return to the “Sphere.”The premium cabler is developing a sci-fi series based on Michael Crichton’s 1987 novel, which was previously adapted into the 1998 film starring Dustin Hoffman, Sharon Stone and Samuel L.
Jackson.This new series version hails from showrunner, writer and executive producer Denise Thé, who is currently an EP on another HBO show in “Westworld.”“Sphere” plunges the audience one thousand 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.
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