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Steven Spielberg To Infiltrate 'Pirate Latitudes'

Steven Spielberg To Infiltrate 'Pirate Latitudes' It's a seven-year-old boy's dream team -- Steven Spielberg , Michael Crichton and David Koepp moving on from rampaging dinosaurs to marauding pirates. DreamWorks Studios has acquired the film rights to the action-adventure novel "Pirate Latitudes," which Crichton wrote just before his death in November. Spielberg, who directed Koepp's adaptations of Crichton's "Jurassic Park" and "The Lost World," will produce the film and possibly direct. Koepp has signed on to adapt. "Michael was a scrupulous researcher and one of the most innovative writers of our era," said Koepp. "To have gotten to work with one of his novels was a privilege; to work with three seems like a dream." "Latitudes," which takes place in 1665, is about a daring plan to infiltrate Port Royal, one of the world's richest and most notorious cities, and raid a Spanish galleon filled with