DreamWorks Options Daniel Wilson’s ‘Robopocalypse’

If I don’t write about robot movies as much as I could here on BotJunkie, it’s because we tend to focus on robots that either are real, or have at least some realistic potential. This is why we covered Wall-E (there are real ones!) but not Astro Boy, and why I’m especially interested in a new movie script that DreamWorks just picked up by robotics expert and our second favorite Keepon snuggler, Daniel Wilson. Called ‘Robopocalypse,’ the movie (based on a book that’s coming out in 2011) “explores the fate of the human race following a robot uprising.”

“Daniel H. Wilson’s cautionary tale of man vs. machine grabbed us from the very beginning,” said DreamWorks co-president of production Mark Sourian. “Wilson’s background in robotics and artificial intelligence grounds his story with a frightening level of realism.”

And that last bit, of course, is what makes this movie so appealing: hopefully, it’s going to be well reasoned and realistic with a solid foundation in robotics, and it’ll remind us all why we should be terrified of our Roombas.

[ Daniel H. Wilson ] VIA [ Variety ] and [ io9 ]

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