The Andromeda Strain is a 2008 science fiction miniseries, based on the novel published in 1969 by Michael Crichton about a team of scientists who investigate a deadly disease of extraterrestrial origin.
The Andromeda Strain miniseries is more of a "reimagining" of the original Michael Crichton novel than an adaptation. In addition to updating the details to an early 21st Century milieu, the miniseries makes a great many plot and character change...
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The Andromeda Strain is a 2008 science fiction miniseries, based on the novel published in 1969 by Michael Crichton about a team of scientists who investigate a deadly disease of extraterrestrial origin.
The Andromeda Strain miniseries is more of a "reimagining" of the original Michael Crichton novel than an adaptation. In addition to updating the details to an early 21st Century milieu, the miniseries makes a great many plot and character changes from its source.
A US government satellite crash lands near Piedmont, Utah, and two teenagers find it and bring it back to town. The town's inhabitants open it and release a deadly microorganism, which is later codenamed Andromeda by the US Army. A team is sent from the Army's bio-defense department to retrieve the satellite, only to die from the disease themselves. The video footage recorded by the retrieval team and their strange deaths capture the attention of General George Mancheck, the head of the bio-defense department, who activates ...
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