Director Steven Spielberg, like every other director, has projects that are developed but for one reason or another drop by the wayside. One such project was a film adaptation of Daniel H. Wilson’s novel “Robopocalypse” which had gone into development in 2010 but has since gone quiet. So whatever happened to Spielberg’s Robopocalypse?
What was Spielberg’s Robopocalypse about?
The film was a cautionary tale that explored the fate of the human race in a desperate last stand against a robot uprising wit a script written by Drew Goddard who since then has scripted World War Z, The Cabin in the Woods, The Martian and current hot Project Hail Mary.
Pre-production was well underway and location scouting had already begun but in 2013 things suddenly went quiet on the project. It seems that the brakes were put the project due to one factor namely the budget.
Whatever happened to Spielberg’s Robopocalypse?
DreamWorks Pictures and 20th Century Fox were set to co-finance and distribute the film but the budget was already huge and was get bigger to such a degree that much like heaven;s gate did to MGM , would bankrupt the studio. Talking about the budget Spielberg explained,
“It was gargantuan. It was a company-ender. It would have ended a whole studio that would have never made its money back. So, I literally decided it was going to be the most expensive movie I ever directed, and I wasn’t ready to take that on.My company, DreamWorks, financed all these films, and I did not want to bring ‘Robo’ into my own company, because it would have just been too expensive for us to produce. And then I took it out to other companies. I didn’t want to pay for it, but other companies were interested in paying for it, as long as I was the director. I didn’t want to do that to anybody because I couldn’t guarantee the audience.”
Will Spielberg ever make it?
If the film had ever gone into production it would have starred Chris Hemsworth, Anne Hathaway, and Ben Whishaw but with a budget that needed an absolute minimum $200 million it became increasingly a bigger and more unfeasible bet especially for an original project and to date there are no signs that we will ever see Spielberg’s Robopocalypse.
So whilst directors like James Cameron will happily max out the budget’s for his films (Avatar 3 cost a rumoured $400m) Spielberg is far more careful with his budgets.
source: Empire
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