Spielberg committed to Robopocalypse!

[nite-owl]

people only want intersellar because of the writer

******** people were excited for interstellar long before Jonah Nolan got involved.

 

[Hunter Rider]

******** people were excited for interstellar long before Jonah Nolan got involved.

It didn't even have a thread here until Jonah Nolan was named as the writer.

http://forums.superherohype.com/showthread.php?t=268753&highlight=interstellar

 

[redhawk23]

Or maybe people were excited for it because it was a hard scifi Spielberg film. That alone sounds awesome. The Nolan connection just got the story up on a slot of comic movie news sites.

 

[Donut]

The Nolan name has to be one of the most overrated names in Hollywood

 

[redhawk23]

If people enjoy their movies consistently, are they not allowed to be excited when they are attatched to a new project?

Just because you don't like them doesn't make them "over-rated."

 

[Wolf Boy]

I'll pick up this book soon. Sounds a bit too much like iRobot, but i still like this sort of thing anyway.

 

[redhawk23]

irobot the story collection or the movie? because really its not like either.

 

[Wolf Boy]

The movie, though i'm being general simply because it features a robot causing a robot revolution. They prob are very different.

 

[mclay18]

Box Office Mojo says that Disney has already skedded Robocalypse for a July 3, 2013 release. Interesting how this has a release date and Lincoln doesn't.

 

[GunRanger]

Because Lincoln isn't a summer tentpole. No doubt it'll be in Dec '12.

 

[mclay18]

Because Lincoln isn't a summer tentpole. No doubt it'll be in Dec '12.

Still, Lincoln is about to shoot in Virginia. Spielberg is a pretty fast and efficient filmmaker, and I won't be surprised if he finishes in three months and has the picture locked in 1-2 months. He was able to get Munich finished within a tight 3 month frame before its Christmas '05 date.

 

[THANOSRULES]

Story is too similiar to Terminator and Matrix

BTW Salvation was an awesome flick

 

[KRIM]

Story is too similiar to Terminator and Matrix

It's about as similar to them as those two are to each other.

 

[THANOSRULES]

It's about as similar to them as those two are to each other.

More Aptly put, the origins of the matrix world depicted in the Matrix cartoon feature.

Seemed to me like the Matrix could viably be the "end result" of the terminator world as well.

 

[terry78]

It'll be interesting at the least.

 

[KRIM]

More Aptly put, the origins of the matrix world depicted in the Matrix cartoon feature.

Seemed to me like the Matrix could viably be the "end result" of the terminator world as well.

The devil is in the details. The concept alone is practically a staple of the genre, so its DNA will be found in many sci-fi classics. Have you read the book? I wasn't reminded of either of those films. It had its own identity.

It'll be interesting at the least.

Spielberg coming to sci-fi always sparks my interests. Minority Report (and to a lesser extent, AI) absolutely enthralled me with its futuristic setting. I'd love to see what Steven can do with today's tech. He's always on game when it comes to that.

 

[Hunter Rider]

The story sounds like a "What if Will Smith had lost in i,Robot?" type scenario. I just hope we have some cool futuristic tech to fight back with and it's not just Falling Skies with robots.

 

[terry78]

I remember Mike Myers was going to do "How to Survive a Robot Uprising" as more of a scifi comedic take back in the day.

 

[moviedoors]

I started the audiobook the other night. I got through about 5 of the 12 hours, but I won't be finishing it. It has some neat ideas and little details, but the story is just as rote as it seems, but worse, far, far worse, the writing and the characters are embarrassingly subpar. It's written all World War Z style. Interviews, tape recordings and whatnot. But where World War Z really had distinct characters with unique voices, these characters are as blank as the robot drones. Wilson has no feel for dialogue or the rhythms of speech. No one talks like these people. The epistolary structure only compounds the dialogue problems as nearly the whole novel is told in first person narration. Even worse, for a novel called ROBOPOCALYPSE, it's almost completely devoid of humor, irony, satire. It's all straight faced junior high D&D histrionic sincerity. I usually love sincerity, it's in short supply these days, but when I have to hear about how "her grandmother always said she (a child! joy!) was an old soul. You could look in her limitless green eyes and see wisdom" (paraphrase) and then follow up the endless child-from-god fawning for one of the weakest call-to-arms, St. Crispin's Day style speech I've ever encountered. For an author with such a background in robotics, technical details and creative stuff like that are almost non existent. I like that stuff. That's one of the things that makes sci-fi fun. It's awfully loose with just what the current technology in this future timeline is. It plays fast and loose seemingly just because it's convenient for the plot.

And yet, I'd still like to see The Beard do it. I'm actually more excited about Spielberg going back to hard genre than I am the Lincoln movie. By and large, the best Speilberg movies are the ones that aren't trying to win Oscars, but are the pure genre exercises. The story in Robopocalypse is whatever. I strongly dislike the novel because of the writing, not so much the plotting. Give this familiar story to a master like Spielberg, and I'm there. He'll sick his script magicians on it and then direct the crap out of it.

 

[:eek:]

Chris Hemsworth Is Steven Spielberg's Next Star

• By Zach Dionne

Scoring what Deadline dubs "one of the most coveted roles in Hollywood," Chris Hemsworth is Steven Spielberg's newly appointed lead for Robopocalypse. After Thor, The Avengers, and Snow White and the Hunstman, Hemsworth shouldn't be fazed by whatever massiveness Spielberg has in mind for this one. Scripted by Drew Goddard (Cloverfield, The Cabin in the Woods, Lost), it'll open in April 2014.

 

[terry78]

It'll be cool seeing him in a more modern day average joe role. Aside from Cabin in the Woods.

 

[redhawk23]

Which character is he going to play? I mean the movie will likely eschew many of the specifics of the book and yet at the same time the author has spoken about how the script and the book were written mostly concurrently and he and the other writers bounced ideas off of one another (also robot ideas).


One element that I really hope the movie retains is the role played by Indian tribal governments because I thought that was a really neat idea and something that made the book really unique.

Edit: I was just thinking about how a major part of the story focuses on a character and his brother. It'd be really sweet if they cast Hemsworth and one his brothers who are also actors.

 

[Jake Cassidy]

Hemsworth is going to become a huge star, isn't he?

 

[terry78]

The next Mel Gibson?

 

[Bim]

I'm looking forward to more Chris Hemsworth t: