Robots! They’re everywhere, from the operating room of your local hospital (you do trust Dr. McClampsy, right?) to right under your feet, teaching your kids valuable lessons (like don’t tick off any teacher that can fire photon beams from its eyes). Sometimes they can even be found “guarding” our nation’s radioactive waste – a great idea because if we’ve learned anything from comic books it’s that radiation + unsuspecting mook =powerful superbeing.
Now, Steven Spielberg and DreamWorks Studios are bringing robots to one more place: the big screen!
Check out the press release we received yesterday:
Los Angeles, CA (October 22, 2010) – Steven Spielberg is set to direct “Robopocalypse,” it was announced today by Mark Sourian and Holly Bario, Co-Presidents of Production for DreamWorks Studios. Based on the novel of the same name by Daniel H. Wilson, Spielberg will begin principal photography on the futuristic tale in January 2012. Disney’s Touchstone will distribute the film in 2013.
Exploring the fate of the human race following a robot uprising, “Robopocalypse” has been adapted for the screen by Drew Goddard.
DreamWorks acquired the rights to Wilson’s unpublished manuscript back in November 2009. Publishing rights were acquired by Doubleday and they plan to release the book in June 2011.
“‘Robopocalypse’ embodies an imaginative story of a robot rebellion unleashed against the human race,” said Mark Sourian. “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.”
About DreamWorks Studios
DreamWorks Studios is a motion picture company formed in 2009 and led by Steven Spielberg and Stacey Snider in partnership with The Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group. Upcoming releases include “I Am Number Four,” “Cowboys & Aliens,” “War Horse,” “The Help,” “Fright Night,” and “Real Steel.”
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