Steven Spielberg’s long-delayed Robopocalypse is back, this time as a television series. Imagine Entertainment and Weed Road are developing the show based on Daniel H. Wilson’s 2011 novel, with Ron Howard attached to direct the pilot and Akiva Goldsman set to write it and serve as showrunner.
The project has no network or streamer attached yet, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment will executive produce.
The novel follows humanity’s fight for survival after the technology that runs the world turns against it. At Zero Hour, the moment the robots attack, the human race is almost wiped out, and its scattered survivors regroup to fight back.
Spielberg optioned the book before it was even published and planned to direct a film version, with Drew Goddard writing the script and Chris Hemsworth and Anne Hathaway once attached to star. He postponed it indefinitely in 2014, and a version with Michael Bay directing in 2018 also failed to gain momentum.
Howard said the story drew him in with its themes and humanity at its centre, calling Wilson’s future “startling and increasingly plausible”. Howard and Goldsman previously worked together on A Beautiful Mind, which won Howard the best director Oscar and Goldsman the best adapted screenplay Oscar.
Source: CBR
