The adaptation has been given to Mikael Salomon, best known as a cinematographer. This tv mini-series remake of The Andromeda Strain comes from Scott Free Productions, the production company of Ridley Scott and Tony Scott. While a couple of Crichton book adaptations were made during the 1970s, almost all of his books were adapted into films during the 1990s.

In recent years, Crichton attained stratospheric popularity following the success of Jurassic Park (1993), which was adapted from his book. (A complete list of Michael Crichton’s films, both as director and of works adapted from his novels, is at the bottom of the page). It made Michael Crichton’s name and he subsequently became a best-selling author and even a film director. The Andromeda Strain was one of the most popular films to ride in on the anti-science wave of 1970s science-fiction that came out following 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). It also became the first Michael Crichton work to appear on cinema screens with The Andromeda Strain (1971). The Andromeda Strain (1969) was Michael Crichton’s fifth book, the first published to be under his own name. They race against time to find a solution before Andromeda reaches California. In attempting to determine the source of Andromeda, they realise that it was sent back from the future through a wormhole. As the Wildfire team experiment on Andromeda, they realise it has the capacity to mutate and adapt to threats – moreover, that it appears to display intelligence in its actions.

However, Andromeda starts spreading, carried by animals, and infects nearby towns, even causing an Air Force jet to crash and detonate a nuclear weapon in the desert. Covert forces within the military eliminate his leak and come after him. Meanwhile, reporter Jack Nash is tipped off about something hush-hush happening and is able to infiltrate the military encampment stationed near Piedmont. Back at Wildfire, all effort is made to determine the nature of Andromeda as the virus is called and how to combat it, as well as why the two survivors were unaffected. They are sent into Piedmont in vac suits to retrieve the satellite up and discover two survivors – a drunk and a baby. There they learn that when the satellite was opened, it unleashed a deadly virus that has killed off everybody in Piedmont. A group of five epidemiological specialists are abruptly rushed to the ultra-secure Wildfire biological containment facility at a secret location in the desert. Two teenagers making out nearby carry it into town on the back of their pickup. A satellite crashes outside the town of Piedmont, Utah.

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