They say all good things come to those who wait… and WAIT. Well, the wait for "Robopocalypse" fans might finally be over, as Oscar winners Ron Howard and Akiva Goldsman have announced they're working on a TV adaptation.
It does seem like an eternity since news first broke that Portland-based New York Times bestselling author Daniel H. Wilson’s "Robopocalypse" (Doubleday, 2011) was bought by Steven Spielberg’s DreamWorks SKG for a sci-fi spectacle, with Drew Goddard ("The Martian") brought in to pen the screenplay.
That was back in 2009, and since then the story of a rogue AI named Archos and a hearty band of indigenous people in America’s heartland battling to save humanity from extinction has been placed on Hollywood’s back burner. After numerous stalled starts and director Michael Bay getting involved in 2018, "Robopocalypse" was quietly powered down due to script issues, filmmaker scheduling conflicts, and the enormous budget required.
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