Filmography › James Pickens Jr

All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring James Pickens Jr

James Pickens Jr appears in Sphere, the film adaptation of the book by Michael Crichton Sphere, first published in 1987.
We invite you to watch, read, and vote for either the adaptation or the original, and join the debate on whether the book or the movie is better.
Sphere. Poster of the 1998 movie and cover of the 1987 book
VS3
Sphere
Michael Crichton, 1987
movie vs book
Sphere
Barry Levinson, 1998

A spacecraft, presumed to be of alien origin, is discovered on the floor of the Pacific Ocean, estimated to have been there for nearly 300 years. The ship’s computer logs cryptically suggest a mission that originated either in the distant past or future, but the team manages to deduce that the long dead crew were tasked with collecting an item of scientific importance.