MUMBAI: After DreamWorks Studios acquired its filming rights, Steven Spielberg has decided to produce the late Michael Crichton‘s unpublished novel Pirate Latitudes and may even direct it.

Spielberg is reuniting with screenwriter David Koepp on the high profile project after both of them worked together in Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull, War Of The Worlds and Jurassic Park.

The late Crichton was in the process of writing Pirate Latitudes before his death last November. And when his assistant found the manuscript, he approached Harper Collins who is publishing the novel. It will be released on November 24 this year.

Spielberg turned Crichton‘s Jurassic Park and The Lost World into hit films and he also worked with the late author on the TV series E.R.