Over a decade after it was last attempted, a new screen adaptation of Daniel H. Wilson’s 2011 book “Robopocalypse” is ready to be plugged in.
Imagine Entertainment and Weed Road are developing a TV series take with Ron Howard attached to direct the pilot and Akiva Goldsman set to showrun and write the pilot.
Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment will executive produce the show along with Brian Grazer, Jeb Brody, Greg Lessans and Rachel Wizenberg will.
Throughout much of the early 2010s, Spielberg was attached to direct a film adaptation – optioning the book before it was published while Drew Goddard was hired to pen the script.
By 2013 the project was put on hold as Spielberg diverted to making “Bridge of Spies” instead, and within a year was indefinitely postponed. Michael Bay tried to get a version going in 2018 but again it didn’t take off.
Spielberg revealed earlier this year that the reason for the film’s collapse was the sheer expense of the project which would’ve been a “company-ender”.
The story centers on humanity’s war against robots controlled by a powerful AI who almost annihilates the human race. The scattered remnants unite for the first time unites in a determined effort to fight back.
No network or streamer is yet involved to the TV version.
Source: THR
