Robopocalypse (Postponed Indefinitely)

[BluLobsta]

Dreamworks is planning a film of Daniel H. Wilson's book. It takes a more scientific view of machines plotting our destruction. The author has a PhD in Robotics (which I was pursuing at one point and still may) so I would love to see what happens with this

http://www.totalfilm.com/news/dreamw...-RSS&attr=news

I love the last two lines in the article:

10 WE LIKE ROBOTS
20 GOTO 10



kinda like "There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't"

[Kyo28]

sounds interesting!

[Blu Titan]

I like the concept. Lets see if they can get a frist rate production.

[GreenScar]

While there is nothing concrete, industry insiders and Deadline are speculating that Steven Spielberg might make Robopocalypse his next directorial feature film. DreamWorks Studios and Doubleday have acquired the property in November in a pre-emptive deal. Daniel H. Wilson’s unpublished manuscript (due in 2011), Robopocalypse tells the story of “the fate of the human race following a robot uprising.” Cloverfield screenwriter Drew Goddard has been hired to pen the big screen adaptation. Spielberg directing a film about the robot apocalypse written by Goddard? Consider me excited!

Robopocalypse won’t be a hugely fantastical tale of the robot uprising, but aims to be more realistic. Wilson has a background in robotics and artificial intelligence which Doubleday Executive Editor and Vice President Jason Kaufman claims “grounds his story with a frightening level of realism and he has created an exhilarating story that we think audiences will really respond to.” Wilson has a Ph.D. in robotics from Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute, is a contributing editor to “Popular Mechanics,” and hosted a show on the History Channel called “The Works.” So yeah, expect something a lot more realistic than Transformers or Terminator Salvation.

You might recognize Wilson’s name as his name is all over a bunch of those novelty survival guide books, including the 2005 book “How to Survive a Robot Uprising: Tips on Defending Yourself Against the Coming Rebellion,” which was optioned by Paramount Pictures, and “Where’s My Jetpack?: A Guide to the Amazing Science Fiction Future That Never Arrived,” “How To Build a Robot Army: Tips on Defending Planet Earth Against Aliens, Ninjas, and Zombies,” and “The Mad Scientist Hall of Fame: Muwahahaha!” His next book, titled “Bro-Jitsu: The Martial Art of Sibling Smackdown,” which has already been optioned by Nicalodeon Movies, is scheduled for release next year.

[Offender_Mullet]

Uh oh.....if the book takes a "scientific view", then it'll be given what I call 'the Spielberg past his prime treatment'.....look for a divorced dad who tries to win back the hearts of his disgruntled children by saving the world from the 'evil' robots.

If he directs, Tom Cruise will star. <-----you heard it hear first folks.

[Fighter]

Originally Posted by GreenScar

Gonna pass on this one.

[Lord_Stewie]

The movie is remake by the way. Don't remember the name of the original but tells the story of man fighting machines for survival.


And no its no Matrix or Terminator.

I will check it out though.

[vegeta88]

While I'm in for anything Spielberg, I feel like there is already an over saturation of robot uprisings and robot battles. Maybe this one will distinguish itself from the rest.

Originally Posted by Offender_Mullet

If he directs, Tom Cruise will star. <-----you heard it hear first folks.

Hope not.

[recS-12]

How about "Runaway" w/Tom S. and Kirstie A.??? That ring a bell?

[jethroblu]

Originally Posted by recS-12

How about "Runaway" w/Tom S. and Kirstie A.??? That ring a bell?

runaway that was a great movie in its day

[Sith4Brains]

Oh l hope it's not Transformers 3

[P@t_Mtl]

Originally Posted by Sith4Brains

Oh l hope it's not Transformers 3

It's the cover story for Transfromers 3

[The Big Blue]

If Spielberg directs this then it will be official... he's lost his ******* mind.

[Batman1980]

Originally Posted by The Big Blue

If Spielberg directs this then it will be official... he's lost his ******* mind.

I would think after all the masterpieces and excellent movies he's made over the years, Spielberg would've earned the benefit of the doubt by now.

[The Big Blue]

I certainly could be wrong but it just seems like a lame attempt to make coin riding the coattails of Transformers. And that's an incredibly depressing proposition.

[Batman1980]

I like the Transformers franchise and if it gets us more robot action films, all the better.

[Blu Ian]

Spielberg

[doctorD]

According to Deadline, Steven Spielberg has committed to direct Robopocalypse:

EXCLUSIVE: Steven Spielberg has committed to next direct Robopocalypse, a Drew Goddard-scripted adaptation of the Daniel H. Wilson epic novel about the human race's attempt to survive an apocalyptic robot uprising. Deadline broke the story that Spielberg was eyeing the novel as a directing vehicle last March, before he instead chose War Horse as the first film he directed for DreamWorks since Spielberg and Stacey Snider left Paramount and made a deal with Reliance and a distribution deal at Disney. At that time, the novel wasn't finished, but Spielberg was so excited about it that it was already being storyboarded and designed as Wilson was turning in pages of the book and Goddard was translating them into the screenplay. Spielberg will start shooting in January, 2012 and Disney's Touchstone will distribute in 2013. It puts Spielberg back into the large scale terrain that is important in his relationship with Reliance, because it is the kind of movie that can succeed on a global tent pole scale. Spielberg has two pictures he directed that are in post-production, Tin Tin: The Secret of the Unicorn will be distributed in the U.S. on December 28, 2011 with War Horse following 5 days later. This might seem like a lot of action for one director, but remember, this is Steven Spielberg, and he has multi-tasked successfully before. Like when he shot Jurassic Park and then moved directly into Schindler's List. He turned out a summer blockbuster, followed later in 1993 by the film that won the Academy Award for Best Picture.

"Robopocalypse embodies an imaginative story of a robot rebellion unleashed against the human race," said Mark Sourian, who's announcing the project with his co-prexy Holly Bario. "This is a project we immediately sparked to and with Steven directing it we knew it was in the best possible hands to bring it to worldwide audiences."

Doubleday will publish the book June, 2011. Wilson is hot stuff, in the kind of hi-tech scifi terrain that was the domain of Michael Crichton. His rep, Justin Manask, is preparing to shop his next book, AMP, which is a near-future science fiction thriller set in a world where the technology to make the disabled whole, turns them into supermen. That book will also be published by Doubleday, with 120 pages done so far. This one is being eyed for summer, 2012.

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[The Big Blue]

Oh no.

[Deadset]

the human race's attempt to survive an apocalyptic robot uprising.

Not exactly original, but with Spielberg at the helm, I'll be optimistic about it.