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Steven Spielberg's Robopocalypse (2013)

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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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MrPliskin

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Is this a sequel to the Matrix? Or Terminator? Or some other Robot uprising film I may have seen in the last 2 decades?
 
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badcrumble

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I'd like to see it be as good (and as morally grey) as Second Renaissance, or the best parts of Battlestar Galactica.

Instead it's going to be War of the Worlds redux. Sigh.
 
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Futureman

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am I just hung over or does that article of horrible structure? Dude comes off as a bad writer. I guess it's the internet though.
 
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SCULLIBUNDO

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Holy shit this is going to be AWESOME.

A live action version of The Second Rennaisance? Something close to redeeming Salvations piss-poor take on the future war?

Spielberg with dark robot uprising? FUCK YES PLEASE!

HYPE HYPE HYPE!
 
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thetrin

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Spielberg goes from Schindler's List to Robopocalypse? :lol
 
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Epix

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This has been done before, no?

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Tobor

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Scullibundo said:
Holy shit this is going to be AWESOME.

A live action version of The Second Rennaisance? Something close to redeeming Salvations piss-poor take on the future war?

Spielberg with dark robot uprising? FUCK YES PLEASE!

HYPE HYPE HYPE!
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A waste of time like War of the Worlds!
 
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Futureman

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MrPliskin said:
Is this a sequel to the Matrix? Or Terminator? Or some other Robot uprising film I may have seen in the last 2 decades?
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We get it. Everything has been done.

If you want to be consistent, you're gonna have to go into every single movie/game/tv show/book thread and say something similar.
 
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Zenith

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That's not the final title right?

Is it going to be a Pixar type movie, OTT action with slight comedy, harrowing grimy drama, what?
 
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Futureman

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Zenith said:
That's not the final title right?

Is it going to be a Pixar type movie, OTT action with slight comedy, harrowing grimy drama, what?
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you are asking for details on a movie that is rumored for a 2013 release. No one knows anything. This website probably just made this up.
 
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cooljeanius

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Thought this was a video game tie-in at first. Finding out that it's not makes me wonder how they're avoiding copyright infringement.
 
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SCULLIBUNDO

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All I know is back when I gave a shit about how the Terminator's future war would be portrayed, Spielberg was at the top of my list of directors who I thought could pull it off after Cameron.

This story is close enough to make my balls swell.

Also, with WotW, Spielberg proved that he's one of the only ones that can make a truly terrifying huge budget PG13 flick.
 
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Scullibundo said:
War of the Worlds was excellent outside of the last 10 minutes.
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A lot of it was quite good, yeah - it was sloppy as hell, but in a way that made it effectively nightmarish. But good GOD do the last ten minutes ever kill it.
 
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StuBurns said:
Worst title ever, Drew Goddard however wrote pretty much all the best episodes of Lost, so I believe.
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Um, just going by his wiki that's not true at all. He does have a few standouts, however (including your favorite episode, IIRC).
 
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TheKaeptain

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Scullibundo said:
Holy shit this is going to be AWESOME.

A live action version of The Second Rennaisance? Something close to redeeming Salvations piss-poor take on the future war?

Spielberg with dark robot uprising? FUCK YES PLEASE!

HYPE HYPE HYPE!
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This.
 
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SCULLIBUNDO

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jett said:
what the hell, I couldn't give two shits about this

What's going on with Interstellar?
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Will you forget Interstellar? Like Lincoln, its never going to happen. It would have been great but its time to let go.

Also, I wouldn't be surprised to see the film get a name change closer to release.
 
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StuBurns

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gdt5016 said:
Um, just going by his wiki that's not true at all. He does have a few standouts, however (including your favorite episode, IIRC).
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Okay, that is fair, I would say he wrote more of the best episodes than anyone else, and only one bad one. That's a better batting average than the rest of the writers room.
 
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MrPliskin

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Futureman said:
We get it. Everything has been done.

If you want to be consistent, you're gonna have to go into every single movie/game/tv show/book thread and say something similar.
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There's room to do things (and re-do them) without being completely derivative and, well, creatively bankrupt.

I'd love to be wrong though!
 
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SCULLIBUNDO

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G-Fex said:
Johnny took out several robots unarmed and he didn't get himself killed doing it like *Cough*Reese*cough*
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But did he get laid? Johnny 5 doesn't even have testicles, let alone the type of tesitcles that contain the salvation to the human race within.
 
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Scullibundo said:
But did he get laid? Johnny 5 doesn't even have testicles, let alone the type of tesitcles that contain the salvation to the human race within.
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We never got all the details of that one dance scene he had with ally sheedy. Something probably did happen.

Plus he was a real robot not some special effect made by cameron or a big austrian man.
 
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Forkball

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Hey Spielberg, I have a book idea called "Viruspocalypse" where a normal American family has to survive a post-apocalyptic world after a virus kills 95% of humanity.

I anxiously await your phone call.
 
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jett

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Scullibundo said:
Will you forget Interstellar? Like Lincoln, its never going to happen. It would have been great but its time to let go.

Also, I wouldn't be surprised to see the film get a name change closer to release.
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NEVAH :(
 
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Shanadeus

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I'll watch this and enjoy it if he takes a hard-sci approach to it all (robots don't just randomly do "uprisings" unless they're programmed to have emotions, be irrational and/or kill humans).
 
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StuBurns

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Shanadeus said:
I'll watch this and enjoy it if he takes a hard-sci approach to it all (robots don't just randomly do "uprisings" unless they're programmed to have emotions, be irrational and/or kill humans).
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That just isn't true, we all know robots are evil and biding their time, don't be ignorant, it'll cost you deeply.
 
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