Michael (Boom! Crash! Bang!) Bay Takes Over Steven Spielberg’s Robopocalypse
It seems like forever ago that Steven Spielberg was attached to a big-budget, crazy-ass action flick called Robopocalypse. It didn’t quite seem to me to be a typical Spielberg flick and so today’s news rings all too true.
Yes, Variety reports that Michael (smh) Bay is taking over the reins of Spielberg’s Robopocalypse… Because the man never gets tired of filming robots beating the ass off each other with other robots, evidently.
But really, Hollywood, replacing Steven (Saving Private Ryan) Spielberg with Michael (Pearl Harbor) Bay? I guess Uwe Boll should stand-by just in case Martin Scorsese drops out of his newest motion picture.
The film is based on the novel by Daniel H. Wilson and is set after a robot uprising. We’ll let you know once we hear more on Michael Bay’s Robopocalypse, but until then check out the book trailer for the novel below.
Synopsis:
Not far into our future, the dazzling technology that runs our world turns against us. Controlled by a childlike—yet massively powerful—artificial intelligence known as Archos, the global network of machines on which our world has grown dependent suddenly becomes an implacable, deadly foe. At Zero Hour—the moment the robots attack—the human race is almost annihilated, but as its scattered remnants regroup, humanity for the first time unites in a determined effort to fight back. This is the oral history of that conflict, told by an international cast of survivors who experienced this long and bloody confrontation with the machines. Brilliantly conceived and amazingly detailed, Robopocalypse is an action-packed epic with chilling implications about the real technology that surrounds us.
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