Steven Spielberg May Film the ‘Robopocalypse’

Published by Jeff Leins on March 12, 2010

Speculation continues on what will become Steven Spielberg’s next trip behind the camera.  The great director failed at bringing Abraham Lincoln to the screen and a remake of Harvey, and seems to only be playing an executive producer role on Matt Helm and biopics of Martin Luther King Jr. and George Gershwin.

Deadline suggests Spielberg’s first film under the new DreamWorks/Reliance partnership could be Robopocalypse, a big-budget movie about the human race’s attempt to survive a robot uprising.  Cloverfield writer Drew Goddard is working on the script and adapting from a novel by Daniel H. Wilson.

Mike Myers was once attached to the Paramount picture (in 2006) as the lead, a technical administrator who has the thankless job of sounding warnings against the growing presence of robots.

Let’s face it, we know the robot rebellion is coming.  (I had to fight with my laptop to write that sentence.)  Wilson’s first book (”How To Survive a Robot Uprising: Tips on Defending Yourself Against the Coming Rebellion”) and possibly Spielberg’s movie could serve as valuable guides for what to do when that inevitability happens.  With computers becoming more anthropomorphic and the Japanese creating daily advances in artificial intelligence, the Terminator scenario is coming.  The only question is, will Spielberg rise to the challenge?