Nearly two years ago, Steven Spielberg was
putting together the pieces for his next film,
Robopocalypse. The adaptation of the Daniel H.
Wilson sci-fi novel of the same name was to
return the director to a large-scale tentpole-type
picture, telling the story of a future where an
artificial intelligence comes online and threatens
a, well, robot apocalypse. Chris Hemsworth was
set as the lead, Anne Hathaway and Ben
Whishaw were poised to co-star, Drew Goddard
was writing the screenplay, and filming was set
to begin in Spring 2013 until suddenly it all came
to a halt. Spielberg decided to postpone the film
indefinitely after coming up with “a better way to
tell the story” that would necessitate heavy
reworking of the screenplay.
The filmmaker went on to flirt with American
Sniper before committing to shooting two new
films back-to-back (he’s filming the first one right
now), so whatever happened to Robopocalypse ?
Wilson recently offered a bit of an update on the
project, saying it remains “in the queue”.
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