Andre Braugher, who stars in A&E's upcoming miniseries The Andromeda Strain, told SCI FI Wire that it will completely rework the Michael Crichton novel on which it is based.
"Crichton's book doesn't hold up to the test of time," Braugher said of the book, which was previously adapted as a movie in 1971. "And so not much happens when you go back to 1968 and you read that book. It's anticlimactic, period. So this is an entire ... retelling of the story, with the same premise, but an entirely different retelling."
Braugher co-stars alongside Benjamin Bratt, Christa Miller, Eric McCormack and Rick Schroder.
"I play a military man," Braugher said in an interview while promoting The Mist. "He's the head of the division that's supposed to be taking on this Andromeda Strain, this virus that's taking over [after a U.S. government satellite crash-lands in Utah]. Benjamin Bratt plays the mecurial, hot-headed scientist who's responsible for tracking this thing down and destroying it."
Braugher added: "The virus ultimately proves deadly. The virus escapes, and it mutates, and it's on the loose. And we have to discover a response to it. There are elements of that film Sphere [which was also based on a Crichton book], ... in terms of the involvement of another power in the creation of the virus. But ultimately it just updates it, you know? It just brings it to a present-day realm where, instead of there being this wonderful deus ex machina where the virus just mysteriously happens to become benign, now it's not mysteriously benign. It's still malignant, and it's on the loose." The Andromeda Strain will premiere in early 2008. —Ian Spelling
"I hope they don't mess it up, I quite liked the original".
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