NYT bestseller ‘Robopocalypse’ is getting a TV series with Oscar winners Ron Howard and Akiva Goldsman at the helm
Well, the wait for "Robopocalypse" fans might finally be over, as Oscar winners Ron Howard and Akiva Goldsman have announced they're working on a TV adaptation.
Key points
- "'Robopocalypse' has all the scale and suspense of a major action story, but what drew me to it are the thought-provoking themes and humanity at its center," Ron Howard shared in a statement.
- After numerous stalled starts and director Michael Bay getting involved in 2018, "Robopocalypse" was quietly powered down due to script issues, filmmaker scheduling conflicts, and the enormous budget required.
- Wilson’s "Robopocalypse" (Doubleday, 2011) was bought by Steven Spielberg’s DreamWorks SKG for a sci-fi spectacle, with Drew Goddard ("The Martian") brought in to pen the screenplay.
But now we have been blessed with the news, first broken by The Hollywood Reporter, that Ron Howard ("Apollo 13," "The Da Vinci Code") and Akiva Goldsman ("A Beautiful Mind," "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds") have taken up the mantle of this chilling sci-fi project to develop as a new TV series.
Additional details
- That was back in 2009, and since then the story of a rogue AI named Archos and a hearty band of indigenous people in America’s heartland battling to save humanity from extinction has been placed on Hollywood’s back burner.
- Controlled by a childlike—yet massively powerful—artificial intelligence known as Archos, the global network of machines on which our world has grown dependent suddenly becomes an implacable, deadly foe.
- Wilson Vintage "Daniel created a future that feels both startling and increasingly plausible, with characters who must figure out what connects us when the technology we rely on turns against us.
- Hopefully the pilot episode wows one of the big names, and we can finally see the "Robopocalypse" adaptation of our dreams.
- It's too early to tell which streaming service the "Robopocalypse" TV show will be attached to yet.
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