Paramount Pictures has picked up Daniel H. Wilson's spec script The Blue Afternoon That Lasted Forever from the producers of A Quiet Place.
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Steven Spielberg's "Robopocalypse" was indefinitely postponed by DreamWorks and the director. Screenwriter Drew Goddard has a slight Robopocalypse update.
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What's up with the Steven Spielberg film Robopocalypse? At one point it was all set to be his next film, but that was back in 2012. The script was being developed by Spielberg and Drew Goddard as Daniel H. Wilson wrote his novel. Actors such as Chris Hemsworth, Anne Hathaway and Ben Whishaw were all…
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Briefly: Author Daniel H. Wilson is in a great position: his early books such as How to Survive a Robot Uprising, and How to Build a Robot Army, lead to the novel Robopocalpyse, which was immediately developed as a directorial effort for Steven Spielberg. (It's Spielberg's next film, following Lincoln.) Now Wilson has another novel…
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Alex Proyas (Dark City, Knowing) will produce and may direct AMP for Summit Entertainment. The studio just picked up the rights to the Daniel H. Wilson thriller novel, which is being called "a mix of scifi action and political allegory reminiscent of District 9." The plot of the unpublished book, which will hit shelves in…
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Earlier today, it was announced that Steven Spielberg would be officially directing Robopocalypse, based on Daniel H. Wilson's forthcoming novel about the fate of the human race following a robot uprising. But while humanity is being wiped out in that more serious-minded sci-fi project, Jack Black is going to be bringing a tongue-in-cheek edge to…
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I'm not sure how seriously to take this notion right now, but there's yet another report that Drew Goddard's script based upon the forthcoming Daniel H. Wilson novel Robopocalypse could be a Steven Spielberg film after the director finishes War Horse. This isn't the first we've heard about Robopocalypse. DreamWorks bought the rights to the…
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DreamWorks Studios and Doubleday have acquired, in a pre-emptive deal, the rights to Daniel H. Wilson's unpublished manuscript, Robopocalypse. The story "explores the fate of the human race following a robot uprising." The film project is being fast tracked and the book is tentatively being scheduled for a 2011 publication. No writer, director or actors…
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