Sony has hired screenwriters Kaz Firpo and Ryan Firpo to adapt Eruption, the bestselling novel by Michael Crichton and James Patterson, into a movie. Deadline reported that the project, "which Sony won in a competitive auction last summer in a major deal, is now an open directing assignment with Free Solo filmmakers Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi having exited."
The novel was started by Crichton before his death in 2008 and completed by Patterson. The film adaptation is being produced by Sherri Crichton, Patterson, and Shane Salerno and the Story Factory. Sony's Maia Eyre and Allie Broome are overseeing for the studio.
The Firpos are cousins "who stormed into Hollywood when their original World War II thriller Ruin topped the Black List in 2017. That led to kicking off Phase 4 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe with Eternals, directed by Oscar winner Chloé Zhao, which grossed north of $402 million at the global box office," Deadline noted.