John Lee Hancock has signed on to direct Electric Boy Genius for Disney inspired by the real life story of a robotics prodigy.
Described by Deadline as a “real life Doogie Howser,” Patterson was already “building robots by the time he was in high school and developing innovations like an electronic sign-language translator.”
In 2001, Patterson won the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, which landed him a job working in aerospace robotics for Lockheed Martin.
The boy genius story has a lot of opportunity but Disney will make it a feel-good story about achieving and still being human.
And with John Lee Hancock (who directed The Blind Side) in the comfy chair, I have no doubts it will tug at heart strings.
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