Steven Spielberg has set his sights on the unpublished sci-fi novel Robopocalypse and word has it that the book optioned by Dreamworks may be his next project.
DreamWorks optioned a novel by Daniel H. Wilson (due to be published next June) called Robopocalypse that sources tell us Spielberg has been considering making his next project. And when Hollywood hears that Spielberg is excited about something, they get excited, too: A new draft of the Robopocalypse adaptation has just been handed in by Drew Goddard (co-writer of Cloverfield, and the director of MGM’s lamentably-delayed The Cabin in the Woods), and the town is desperate to get their hands on it.
Must be good to be Spielberg. The guy options a book for Dreamworks – a book that isn’t even out yet – and people are clamoring all over it like its the second coming.
I like big bots, and I cannot lie. There has been a wave of big bots headed to Hollywood after Transformers, and I think they are carpooling. Cameron is teasing Battle Angel, there has been talks about Gundam and even more substance to Voltron.
Now we are getting Robopocalypse.
