Steven Spielberg’s Robopocalypse gets July 2013 release date

By Eric Walkuski

Posted 15 years ago

Last Updated on August 5, 2021

Last word we got on ROBOPOCALYPSE was in October of last year, when it was revealed that Steven Spielberg had officially made the project his next directorial effort. That was sweet news for fans of Steve in sci-fi/action-adventure mode, as this flick sounds like it’s going to be truly massive.

Things just got even more solid on the ROBOPOCALYPSE front as 20th Century Fox has joined Dreamworks as the flick’s co-financier. Disney, which has a partnership with Dreamworks, will distribute the film domestically, while Fox shall handle the international roll-out. That’s three major studios in bed on one movie, folks.

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Not only that, but a release date has already been set: JULY 3, 2013. Yep, this technology-gone-awry movie has fittingly been given the Fourth of July release slot, which once belonged to TERMINATOR 2 and TRANSFORMERS.

Here’s the synopsis for the Daniel H. Simpson book this movie is based on: In the near future, at a moment no one will notice, all the dazzling technology that runs our world will unite and turn against us. Taking on the persona of a shy human boy, a childlike but massively powerful artificial intelligence known as Archos comes online and assumes control over the global network of machines that regulate everything from transportation to utilities, defense and communication. In the months leading up to this, sporadic glitches are noticed by a handful of unconnected humans – a single mother disconcerted by her daughter’s menacing “smart” toys, a lonely Japanese bachelor who is victimized by his domestic robot companion, an isolated U.S. soldier who witnesses a ‘pacification unit’ go haywire – but most are unaware of the growing rebellion until it is too late.

When the Robot War ignites — at a moment known later as Zero Hour — humankind will be both decimated and, possibly, for the first time in history, united.

Evangeline Lilly, from the upcoming Spielberg-produced REAL STEEL

Source: THR

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