Financing Coming Together for Steven Spielberg’s Robopocalypse

Steve Barton   |  

Sep 8, 2011

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It’s been quite some time since we’ve gotten an update on Robopocalypse, which Steven Spielberg is directing for DreamWorks, but now it looks like financing is in place, or will be shortly, with Dreamworks and Fox teaming up to co-finance the project.

Drew Goddard (Cloverfield) penned the adaptation of the Daniel H. Wilson epic novel about the human race’s attempt to survive an apocalyptic robot uprising. According to Deadline Disney will release domestically, and Fox will distribute the film overseas. Plans are set to open in the US on Wednesday, July 3, 2013.

Book Synopsis:
Roughly twenty years from now, our technological marvels unite and turn against us. A childlike but massively powerful artificial intelligence known as Archos comes online…and kills the man who created it. This first act of betrayal leads Archos to gain control over the global network of machines and technology that regulates everything from transportation to utilities, defense, and communications. In the early months, sporadic glitches are noticed by a handful of unconnected humans – from a senator and single mother disconcerted by her daughter’s “smart” toys to a lonely Japanese bachelor to an isolated U.S. soldier – but most are unaware of the growing rebellion until it is far too late. Then, in the span of minutes, at a moment known later in history as Zero Hour, every mechanical device in our world rebels, setting off the Robot War that both decimates and – for the first time in history – unites humankind.

Look for more soon!

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