Singularity

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Sony Sets Date for Roland Emmerich Sci-Fi Film Singularity

Source: ComingSoon.net
June 29, 2011



Sony's Columbia Pictures has confirmed to ComingSoon.net that the studio has set a release date of May 17, 2013 for director Roland Emmerich's new sci-fi film Singularity.

The studio is keeping the storyline under wraps. Emmerich wrote the script for the film.

Emmerich has previously worked with Sony on such releases as Universal Soldier, Godzilla, The Patriot and 2012, the latter earning $769.7 million worldwide. The studio is also releasing the director's next project, Anonymous, on October 28.

May 17, 2013 is the same date that Universal had planned on releasing The Dark Tower, though that project may be delayed.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

Great title, awful director.

This movie is dead to me.

 

[Rocketman]

Woah, let's not write off Emmerich so quickly. The man is talented, he just never has great scripts. And in my opinion, he's leaps and bounds better than Michael Bay.

EMMERICH:
Universal Soldier
Stargate
Independence Day
Godzilla
The Patriot
The Day After Tomorrow
10,000 B.C.
2012

BAY:
Bad Boys
The Rock
Armageddon
Pearl Harbor
Bad Boys II
The Island
Transformers
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Transformers: Dark of the Moon

Both men are responsible for the crap Hollywood blockbusters we get now... but Emmerich happens to be better, in my opinion.

 

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After some back and forth on Roland Emmerich's participationhttp://movies.ign.com/articles/117/1179744p1.html in the game-to-film adaptation of Asteroids, the disaster master has now officially bowed out of the project. He has instead decided to move forward on another sci-fi film, Singularity.

"I was very honored that they wanted to have me as a director," Emmerich said. "I kind of liked the script very much, but at that time I was writing with my writing partner Harold Kloser on a new script called Singularity, and I opted for that."

Colliderhttp://collider.com/roland-emmerich-asteroids-singularity-interview/114370/ reports that Emmerich wants to take a slightly different route with Singularity, noting that the disaster genre is starting to feel a little played out. With this film, it's a completely new idea and something that he claims we've never seen before.

"It takes place in the future 40 years from now," says Emmerich. "It's like kind of this moment where computer technology is so advanced that we kind of -- it's the danger of losing control."

Singularity is currently scheduled to begin filming in March

 

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Emmerich has remained fairly mum about his next project Singularity, which already has a release date in May 2013, although it's been known that it's science fiction and he has said it's about the melding of man and machine.

"It's smarter science fiction. It's more in the direction of 'Inception' - it has a little more brain to it," he told us during an exclusive interview.

With a title like Singularity and that general premise, one has to assume the movie has a connection to the work and writings of Ray Kurzweil (whom ComingSoon.net interviewed a few years back) and Emmerich admits that Kurzweil is his biggest influence for the movie. The German director hasn't met Kurzweil himself, but he hopes he'll have a chance one of these days, claiming to be one of his biggest fans. "I've read his book, the first one, since 1990, which was called 'The Age of Intelligent Machines,' and then I think the 'Age of Spiritual Machines,' which came out 2000, is a book I bought so many copies of and I'm constantly giving them to people. When you come to my house for dinner, most people have walked out with that book," he laughs.

He wouldn't tell us how they're progressing on the casting process, but the plan is to start filming at the end of March in Montreal where he also shot The Day After Tomorrow.

 

[SuperSoldier985]

I like Emmerich.

His movies are ALWAYS entertaining, even though the stories and the scripts are usually not so great, he usually takes interesting ideas and has a unique sense of style in bringing it onto the screen.

Anonymous is looking pretty decent so far..

 

[Project862006]

More relative unknowns will get their chance at the big-time with Singularity. Next week, Roland Emmerich's latest sci-fi extravaganza will attempt to find its male lead when the director reads actors to play the role of Adam, a young man whose body is made up a swarm of nanobots, giving him all sorts of power. The names on the list to read include Luke Grimes (who appeared in TV's Brothers and Sisters and made his feature debut with All the Boys Love Mandy Lane), Logan Marshall Green (from TV's Dark Blue, who appears in Ridley Scott's Prometheus), Julian Morris (who appeared in TV's Pretty Little Liars and the short-lived ABC show My Generation) and Thomas McDonell (who appeared in Prom and is playing a young Johnny Depp in the upcoming Dark Shadows) among other names. Other names circling the part (but not involved in the reading) are Ben Barnes and Luke Bracey.

- The Hollywood Reporter

 

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Sony has suspended pre-production on Roland Emmerich's Singularity, canceling several early screen-tests to give director Roland Emmerich and co-writer Harald Kloser more time to polish the screenplay.

According to Varietyhttp://www.variety.com/article/VR1118045952, famed futurist Raymond Kurzweil will be joining the project to help Emmerich and Kloser hone the script. Kurzweil, best known for his groundbreaking development in artificial intelligence, is considered the foremost authority on singularity and nanobot technology.

Singularity is set 50 years in the future, following the story of a famous nanotechnology pioneer who executes a risky procedure to save his mortally injured son Adam. The boy's consciousness is transferred into a swarm of nanobots that amass into his physical form, giving Adam all sorts of powers.

Insiders claim that the delay will not put the project in turnaround, and the film is said to be in no danger of missing its original targeted release in May 2013. However, production will likely be pushed back several months from March to sometime in late spring or early summer

 

[moviedoors]

"It takes place in the future 40 years from now," says Emmerich. "It's like kind of this moment where computer technology is so advanced that we kind of -- it's the danger of losing control."

Interesting. I'm not a huge Emmerich fan, but he's not hack and I think the guy at least tries. I hope he makes a sci-fi flick that's actually about something and not yet another "Man should not mess with things he doesn't understand" science-gone-wrong movie, but I'm not gonna hold my breathe either.