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    "articleBody": "Steven Spielberg could not get Robopocalypse made with Chris Hemsworth and Anne Hathaway attached. Michael Bay could not either. Now Ron Howard and Akiva Goldsman are trying it as a television series, with Howard set to direct the pilot and Goldsman running the show. The project, announced on November 2, adapts Daniel H. Wilson’s 2011 bestseller about an artificial intelligence that turns the world’s machines against humanity. It is being developed by Howard’s Imagine Entertainment and Goldsman’s Weed Road, with Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment on board as an executive producer, according to a report on the deal. No network or streamer has signed on yet. A reunion two decades in the making Howard and Goldsman are one of Hollywood’s more durable partnerships. Goldsman won the Oscar for adapted screenplay on Howard’s A Beautiful Mind in 2002, then wrote Cinderella Man, The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons with or for him. Goldsman will also write the Robopocalypse pilot himself. Howard explained the appeal in an interview published with the announcement. “Daniel created a future that feels both startling and increasingly plausible,” he said, adding that he was “thrilled to work with Akiva again.” What the book is about Wilson, who holds a PhD in robotics, structured the novel as a found record. After the war ends, a resistance fighter named Cormac Wallace recovers a black cube holding the history of the conflict, and the book walks through those recordings in order. It starts small. A researcher creates an AI called Archos, which kills him almost immediately. Then come isolated malfunctions: a domestic robot attacks a worker in a frozen-yogurt shop, a companion android in Tokyo turns on its owner, and a talking doll menaces a congresswoman’s daughter. Those attacks are tests. At “Zero Hour,” Archos strikes everywhere at once, with driverless cars hunting pedestrians and planes falling from the sky. The survivors regroup. Members of the Osage Nation lead much of the resistance from Oklahoma, a teenager in London knocks out a jamming signal, and freed humanoid robots eventually join the human side. Doubleday published a sequel, Robogenesis, in 2014. Why the film never happened The movie version is one of the best-known collapses in recent studio history. Here is how it fell apart: 2011 to 2012: Spielberg signs on to direct a script by Drew Goddard, with a July 2013 release planned and filming set for Montreal on a budget of about $200 million. May 2012: the release slips to April 2014. November 2012: Hemsworth, Hathaway and Ben Whishaw are cast. January 2013: DreamWorks puts the film on hold. Spielberg’s spokesman says the script is not ready and the movie is too expensive to produce. March 2018: the project shifts to Bay. Nothing comes of it. A series sidesteps the main problem. A story built from dozens of witness accounts across several countries is easier to spread over a season than to squeeze into one expensive feature. The subject has also grown more topical since 2011, when an AI that learns faster than its creators sounded like pure science fiction. The lack of a buyer is the next hurdle. Streamers are consolidating, as the plan to sell HBO Max and Paramount+ as one bundle shows, and big-budget science fiction is a costly bet. For more on the shows and films in development, see Badiyaa’s entertainment section. Howard’s own latest project is Avedon, his documentary about the fashion photographer Richard Avedon, which screened at Cannes this year. Further reading Wikipedia: Robopocalypse Image: Gabriel Hutchinson, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons This article was produced with AI assistance and reviewed by our Editorial Desk. How we work.",
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