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Robot Uprising, Take 4,361 -- Hide Your Medicine, Old People

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (7)

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Steven Spielberg’s next project, after War Horse and Tin Tin: The Secret of the Unicorn, which will both be out in December 2011, will be Robopocalypse, reports Deadline. It’s being scripted by Drew Goddard (Cloverfield) and based on a Daniel H. Wilson novel about the human race’s attempt to survive an apocalyptic robot uprising.

So … the next Terminator sequel, then? Or the I, Robot sequel? Or is it the actual big-screen adaptation of Battlestar Galactica?

It’d be cooler if they called it Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robopocalypse. Or here’s a better idea: Robot Zombies!









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Comments

Robot Zombies!

Great idea! I haven't seen Vin Diesel in a damn long time!

Posted by: D-Day at October 25, 2010 10:00 AM

So... Robot Zombies... they would be robots that were in some way destroyed/made to malfunction and then reassembled of their own volition, no longer following Asimov's rules?

I'd watch that.

Posted by: RobP at October 25, 2010 10:18 AM

Robopocalypse sounds like one of those SyFy movies, like Sharktopus and Beavershark.

Posted by: BWeaves at October 25, 2010 11:00 AM

At least attach a video of Conan's Pimpbot laying the verbal smackdown on all of humanity. This seems too simple to be its own post.

Posted by: Kballs at October 25, 2010 11:12 AM

[BOOOOOM -- Space ship flying over Planet Earth as sun rises behind it]
Narrator: In a world...
[BOOOOOM -- Space soldiers coming down the ramp of a grounded space ship onto a dessolate, barren world]
Narrator: Where man has not stepped foot in five-hundred years...
[BOOOOOM -- Space soldiers huddled together in the dark, gripping their laser-guns]
Terrified Soldier: What was that?
Tough Chick Soldier: They're coming.
[Lights go out. Brief silence]
Narrator: Something is alive.
[BOOM BOOM BOOM -- Soldiers running down a hallway, shooting behind them. The machines that chase them are blasted to bits over and over, but reassemble themselves in new, horrifying ways each time]
Tough Chick Soldier: You have no idea what we're dealing with, Captain! Our men are dying out there!
Authoritarian Captain: Just do as you're told, Luitenant Reyes!
Tough Chick Soldier: But they keep coming back!
[Explosions in a hanger-bay blow to bits a swarm of lumbering robot monstrosities. Soldiers surround them and blast at the pieces. A serpentine, robot tail whips up from the wreckage and smashes a soldier against the wall]
Terrified Soldier: We're finished, man! We should have never come back to Earth!
Tough Chick Soldier: Keep firing, marine!
[Space ship flying fast over desolate terrain as it is engaged in gunfight with huge mechanical, robot fireflies that are chasing close behind]
Nerdy Soldier: The radition levels are off the chart, Luitenant. It's like nothing I've ever seen!
Tough Chick Soldier: What are you saying, private?
Nerdy Soldier: I'm saying that we can't shut off their power source. We can't kill them! [BOOM -- Explosion]
[BOOM -- Erratic gunfire]
[BOOM -- Swarms of monstrous robots letting loose barrage of laser-fire]

ROBOT ZOMBIES [Stamped in metalic letters]

[Terrified soldier quivering in the dark. A quiet clicking is all around him and he's breathing quietly. A red light suddenly flares up behing him, in the eye of a Robot Zombie]
[BOOOOOOOOOOOOOM...]

Posted by: superasente at October 25, 2010 12:02 PM

I like your enthusiasm, superasente, here's the tagline you can use for your official pitch: Star Trek: First Contact meets Aliens, with awesomesauce.

Posted by: RobP at October 25, 2010 12:45 PM

I thought the robot zombie movie was already greenlit under the title Wall*E 2: Wall*E Takes Manhattan.

Posted by: ed newman at October 25, 2010 2:59 PM