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Steven Spielberg's Robopocalypse (2013)

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JdFoX187

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Damn. When I first heard he was working on this, I always thought it'd get pushed back to never being made. Glad to see it's moving forward.

As for Spielberg's other film, Lincoln, what happened with that? I remember seeing a rush of casting news and then nothing. He still prepping to film?
 
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CrazyDude

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JdFoX187 said:
Damn. When I first heard he was working on this, I always thought it'd get pushed back to never being made. Glad to see it's moving forward.

As for Spielberg's other film, Lincoln, what happened with that? I remember seeing a rush of casting news and then nothing. He still prepping to film?
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Spielberg seems to work on two film at the same time. Like war horse and tin tin.
 
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SCULLIBUNDO

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JdFoX187 said:
Damn. When I first heard he was working on this, I always thought it'd get pushed back to never being made. Glad to see it's moving forward.

As for Spielberg's other film, Lincoln, what happened with that? I remember seeing a rush of casting news and then nothing. He still prepping to film?
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Its on schedule. Will be released at the end of next year.
 
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SCULLIBUNDO

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‘It’s a movie about a global war between man and machine,’ the director tells me. ‘I had a great time creating the future on “Minority Report”, and it’s a future that is coming true faster than any of us thought it would. “Robopocalypse” takes place in 15 or 20 years, so it’ll be another future we can relate to. It’s about the consequences of creating technologies which make our lives easier, and what happens when that technology becomes smarter than we are. It’s not the newest theme, it’s been done throughout science fiction, but it’s a theme that becomes more relevant every year.’
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http://collider.com/steven-spielberg-robopocalypse-details/137451/

Can't wait.
 
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grendelrt

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D4Danger said:
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I can only communicate in high pitched screams
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I didnt mind that movie, but she was fucking annoying as hell in it.
 
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SCULLIBUNDO

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jett said:
Seems too soon for the movie's concept.

Has anyone bothered reading the novel btw?
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I've not read it, but most reports indicate the novel is hot garbage. Hopefully he steers the script.

Also, I love reading a post of mine a page back saying that we should stop hoping for Lincoln to happen. Now he's shooting it. :)
 
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Mr. B Natural

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Would watch if the robots in the movie robopocalpyse were called apocalypsebots and the main character Johnpocalpse ate saladpocalpyses with robodressing and bacobots.
 
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tino

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Why does he keep directing hard sci-fi that doesn't work well with his sentimentality? Why can't he make more Close Encounter type soft sci-fi stories?
 
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adamsappel

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jett said:
Seems too soon for the movie's concept.

Has anyone bothered reading the novel btw?
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adamsappel said:
I've got an Advance Reading Copy of the novel and, so far, it's freaking brilliant. Structured like World War Z. Voice reminds me of Haldeman's Forever War. I have no doubt Spielberg will do awesome things with these stories.
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Book started really strong, but kind of lost its impact towards the last. Sometimes the conceit of how the novel is "written" beggars belief. I do think Spielberg will have a lot of fun with the setting, though.

It's funny to look back through the thread and everyone talking about how Lincoln will never get made without Liam Neeson, etc.
 
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jett

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adamsappel said:
Book started really strong, but kind of lost its impact towards the last. Sometimes the conceit of how the novel is "written" beggars belief. I do think Spielberg will have a lot of fun with the setting, though.

It's funny to look back through the thread and everyone talking about how Lincoln will never get made without Liam Neeson, etc.
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Cool. As far as sci-fi Spielbergo goes I sure hope this movie is more up to the standards of A.I. or MR even than War of the Worlds.
 
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JGS

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Read this book and was severely disappointed. However it has so much potential as a movie. If Spielberg sticks to the book beyond bare bones, it's in trouble.
 
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Gilgamesh

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I'd read the book but I ain't paying $12.99 for that shit on Kindle. Will wait for $7.99 price drop to coincide with mass market paperback.

It will be nice to see Spielberg directing sci-fi again after like 8 years.
 
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C.Dark.DN

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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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I'll take it, but it's not what I want.

I loved Jude Laws preofrmance as Gigolo Joe in Artificial Intelligence. I want a movie about humanoid robots in a future world with Space Travel.

W're overloaded with large evil robot battles.
 
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Pie and Beans

Look for me on the local news, I'll be the guy arrested for trying to burn down a Nintendo exec's house.
Too often do I read GAF thread titles aloud, emit a hearty laugh and then click through to find the joke and realise its real instead.

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Frankfurt

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Minority, AI and War were all mediocre movies. There was such a cold, detached feel to them, and their mediocre scripts didn't match the tone and directing at all. I miss the raw, emotional Spielberg. He's technically beyond most of his peers, but it's like he stopped being human along the way. AI at least tried, but War and Minority were as "interesting" as Michael Bay's The Island. Like a robot's view on what a movie should be. And the clichés, oh God.
 
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jett

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Frankfurt said:
Minority, AI and War were all mediocre movies. There was such a cold, detached feel to them, and their mediocre scripts didn't match the tone and directing at all. I miss the raw, emotional Spielberg. He's technically beyond most of his peers, but it's like he stopped being human along the way. AI at least tried, but War and Minority were as "interesting" as Michael Bay's The Island. Like a robot's view on what a movie should be. And the clichés, oh God.
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protip: you should get yourself checked out, you might be dead inside
 
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thetrin

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jett said:
protip: you should get yourself checked out, you might be dead inside
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What part of AI wasn't mediocre outside of the effects? I thought it was gorgeous, but largely pretty damn boring.
 
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jett

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thetrin said:
What part of AI wasn't mediocre outside of the effects? I thought it was gorgeous, but largely pretty damn boring.
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Mediocre? AI is one of my favorite movies, I don't find anything mediocre in it. Certainly not Joel-Osment's performance, which is flat out fantastic.

Anyway, I was talking more about how he described it as cold and detached, I consider it one of the more emotional Spielberg movies.
 
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JGS

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Frankfurt said:
]Minority, AI and War were all mediocre movies.[/B] There was such a cold, detached feel to them, and their mediocre scripts didn't match the tone and directing at all. I miss the raw, emotional Spielberg. He's technically beyond most of his peers, but it's like he stopped being human along the way. AI at least tried, but War and Minority were as "interesting" as Michael Bay's The Island. Like a robot's view on what a movie should be. And the clichés, oh God.
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Argh. Cruise & Spielberg handled grief in just a couple of scenes better than entire movies on the subject. Minority Report is the opposite of cold, which is a common trait I dislike in a lot of sci-fi.

All of the sci-fi trilogy are great actually.
 
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el retorno

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Strafer said:
http://www.deadline.com/2013/01/ste...alypse/#utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Pushed back even more
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I hope he does this instead. More biblical epics please

Now, there will be instant speculation on whether Spielberg will take on a project like the widely rumored Moses epic Gods and Kings, which Stuart Hazeldine and Michael Green scripted at Warner Bros, and which finds itself in competition with the Ridley Scott-attached Fox project Exodus, which Adam Cooper and Bill Collage scripted. It’s too early to tell what he’ll do next.
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Anticitizen One

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Is this the sequel to Billy and the Cloneasaurus?

"First you take an idea that's already been done and then you give it a name that nobody could possibly stand"
 
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