Gods of Egypt, Alex Proyas. fantasy action-adventure starring Gerard Butler, Game of Thrones. Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Geoffrey Rush and Brenton Thwaites, started shooting on Thursday at the Fox Studios.
The budget is reportedly $150 million, financed by Us studio Summit Entertainment with support from the Nsw government.s Investment Attraction Scheme.
When he announced the grant, Deputy Premier Andrew Stoner said the production will create an estimated 400 jobs in the local industry and contribute around $75 million in direct production expenditure to the Nsw economy.
Stoner said several of the State.s visual effects companies would be used to create the film.s sets, landscapes and creatures.
Entertainment One (formerly Hopscotch eOne) gets the Australian rights via its output deal with Summit. Based on Egyptian mythology, the screenplay is by Proyas, Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless, the team behind Universal.s Dracula Untold, which opens here in October.
Thwaites plays Bek, a young...
The budget is reportedly $150 million, financed by Us studio Summit Entertainment with support from the Nsw government.s Investment Attraction Scheme.
When he announced the grant, Deputy Premier Andrew Stoner said the production will create an estimated 400 jobs in the local industry and contribute around $75 million in direct production expenditure to the Nsw economy.
Stoner said several of the State.s visual effects companies would be used to create the film.s sets, landscapes and creatures.
Entertainment One (formerly Hopscotch eOne) gets the Australian rights via its output deal with Summit. Based on Egyptian mythology, the screenplay is by Proyas, Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless, the team behind Universal.s Dracula Untold, which opens here in October.
Thwaites plays Bek, a young...
- 3/20/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
The Nsw government has won a bidding war with Victoria for Gods of Egypt, Alex Proyas. fantasy adventure starring Gerard Butler, Game of Thrones. Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Geoffrey Rush and Brenton Thwaites. Deputy Premier Andrew Stoner confirmed the production will shoot in Sydney, based at the Fox Studios, lured by Nsw Trade & Investment.s State Investment Attraction Scheme.
.Securing the production of Gods of Egypt for Nsw will create an estimated 400 jobs in the local film industry and contribute around $75 million in direct production expenditure to the Nsw economy,. he said. The production had built sets at the Fox Studios but the decision on whether to shoot there or in Melbourne has only just been made.. The action-adventure based on Egyptian mythology was written by Proyas, Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless. Shooting starts at the end of March.
Stoner said several of the State.s visual effects companies would be used...
.Securing the production of Gods of Egypt for Nsw will create an estimated 400 jobs in the local film industry and contribute around $75 million in direct production expenditure to the Nsw economy,. he said. The production had built sets at the Fox Studios but the decision on whether to shoot there or in Melbourne has only just been made.. The action-adventure based on Egyptian mythology was written by Proyas, Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless. Shooting starts at the end of March.
Stoner said several of the State.s visual effects companies would be used...
- 2/23/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Gerard Butler is in talks to join Game of Thrones.. Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Geoffrey Rush in Gods of Egypt, Alex Proyas. action-adventure set in ancient Egypt that.s due to shoot in Australia next March.
Butler would play Set, a god who kills and mutilates his own brother Osiris, according to Deadline.com. Coster-Waldau stars as Horus, the son of Osiris, who seeks to avenge his father.s death.
Rush will play the sun god Ra, father of Set and Osiris who is also Set.s ultimate target, The Hollywood Reporter revealed.
Summit Entertainment is financing the SFX-laden film, which would be released in the Us by its sibling Lionsgate. The producers are Proyas. Mystery Clock Cinema and Thunder Road.s Basil Iwanyk, with Proyas. long-time business partner Topher Dow as executive producer.
The screenplay is by Proyas and Burk Sharpless and Matt Sazama, the team behind Dracula Untold, which Universal will release next year.
Butler would play Set, a god who kills and mutilates his own brother Osiris, according to Deadline.com. Coster-Waldau stars as Horus, the son of Osiris, who seeks to avenge his father.s death.
Rush will play the sun god Ra, father of Set and Osiris who is also Set.s ultimate target, The Hollywood Reporter revealed.
Summit Entertainment is financing the SFX-laden film, which would be released in the Us by its sibling Lionsgate. The producers are Proyas. Mystery Clock Cinema and Thunder Road.s Basil Iwanyk, with Proyas. long-time business partner Topher Dow as executive producer.
The screenplay is by Proyas and Burk Sharpless and Matt Sazama, the team behind Dracula Untold, which Universal will release next year.
- 9/24/2013
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
One of the legendary writers from the golden age of 20th century science fiction was Robert Heinlein. Even though Hollywood hasn't made many movies from Heinlein's works (Starship Troopers being the best known exception), his shadow over the genre remains huge.
I, Robot, Knowing and Dark City director Alex Proyas read Heinlein's novella The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag when he was a boy, but the story made a big impact with the young man's mind. Now Proyas is getting an opportunity to make a movie based on this lesser known of Heinlein's creations.
No less than four producing companies are involved with turning The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag into a film. They are film finance/sales company Red Granite Pictures; Mythology Entertainment; Mike Medavoy's Phoenix Pictures; and Proyas' own company Mystery Clock Cinema.
First published in 1942, The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag tells of the titular man.
I, Robot, Knowing and Dark City director Alex Proyas read Heinlein's novella The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag when he was a boy, but the story made a big impact with the young man's mind. Now Proyas is getting an opportunity to make a movie based on this lesser known of Heinlein's creations.
No less than four producing companies are involved with turning The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag into a film. They are film finance/sales company Red Granite Pictures; Mythology Entertainment; Mike Medavoy's Phoenix Pictures; and Proyas' own company Mystery Clock Cinema.
First published in 1942, The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag tells of the titular man.
- 4/11/2012
- by Patrick Sauriol
- Corona's Coming Attractions
Australian director Alex Proyas is to direct an adaptation of a Robert A Heinlein novella, bringing the film to Australia, it’s been announced.
The news comes just two months after Proyas had his adaptation of John Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost scratched for budget reasons by production company Legendary Pictures. It was due to start filming in February.
As well as directing, Proyas’s Mystery Clock Cinema will co-produce an adaptation of Heinlein’s The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag.
Producing alongside will be Mike Medavoy and Arnie Messier of Phoenix Pictures, Bradley Fischer of Mythology Entertainment and Riza Aziz and Joey McFarland of Red Granite and Vince Gerardis. Joe Gatta, Topher Dow and Vincent Sieber are to executive produce. The production will be fully financed by Red Granite who are also producing Martin Scorsese’s forthcoming The Wolf of Wall Street, starring Leonardo DiCaprio.
Producers are looking...
The news comes just two months after Proyas had his adaptation of John Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost scratched for budget reasons by production company Legendary Pictures. It was due to start filming in February.
As well as directing, Proyas’s Mystery Clock Cinema will co-produce an adaptation of Heinlein’s The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag.
Producing alongside will be Mike Medavoy and Arnie Messier of Phoenix Pictures, Bradley Fischer of Mythology Entertainment and Riza Aziz and Joey McFarland of Red Granite and Vince Gerardis. Joe Gatta, Topher Dow and Vincent Sieber are to executive produce. The production will be fully financed by Red Granite who are also producing Martin Scorsese’s forthcoming The Wolf of Wall Street, starring Leonardo DiCaprio.
Producers are looking...
- 4/11/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
Filmmaker Alex Proyas is set to shoot his next film, The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag, in Australia later this year.
It follows the failure of his Paradise Lost film . an adaptation of John Milton's famous poem, which was expected to create 1300 jobs in Australia before production house Legendary Pictures pulled the plug in February due to concerns that the slated CGI effects were to ambitious for its $US120 million budget.
The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag is expected shoot in Australia sometime between September and December this year although which Australian state will host the production has not yet been announced. The film is likely to be eligible for the 40 per cent Producer Offset rebate, which applies to productions which pass the 'significant Australian content' test.
The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag is based on a 1942 novella by science-fiction author Robert Heinlein and inspired Proyas' Dark City. The...
It follows the failure of his Paradise Lost film . an adaptation of John Milton's famous poem, which was expected to create 1300 jobs in Australia before production house Legendary Pictures pulled the plug in February due to concerns that the slated CGI effects were to ambitious for its $US120 million budget.
The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag is expected shoot in Australia sometime between September and December this year although which Australian state will host the production has not yet been announced. The film is likely to be eligible for the 40 per cent Producer Offset rebate, which applies to productions which pass the 'significant Australian content' test.
The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag is based on a 1942 novella by science-fiction author Robert Heinlein and inspired Proyas' Dark City. The...
- 4/10/2012
- by Brendan Swift
- IF.com.au
Finance and international sales company Red Granite Pictures announced today that they will fully finance and co-produce Alex Proyas' The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag with Mythology Entertainment, Phoenix Pictures and Mystery Clock Cinema.
Producers are Riza Aziz and Joey McFarland (Red Granite), Bradley Fischer (Mythology Entertainment), Mike Medavoy and Arnie Messier (Phoenix Pictures), Alex Proyas (Mystery Clock Cinema) and Vince Gerardis. Joe Gatta, Topher Dow and Vincent Sieber are executive producers.
Proyas (Dark City, I, Robot, Knowing) will direct the film, which will shoot in Australia where Proyas is a resident and operates his production company, Mystery Clock Cinema. Producers are eyeing a fall 2012 start date.
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Producers are Riza Aziz and Joey McFarland (Red Granite), Bradley Fischer (Mythology Entertainment), Mike Medavoy and Arnie Messier (Phoenix Pictures), Alex Proyas (Mystery Clock Cinema) and Vince Gerardis. Joe Gatta, Topher Dow and Vincent Sieber are executive producers.
Proyas (Dark City, I, Robot, Knowing) will direct the film, which will shoot in Australia where Proyas is a resident and operates his production company, Mystery Clock Cinema. Producers are eyeing a fall 2012 start date.
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- 4/10/2012
- shocktillyoudrop.com
Dark City director Alex Proyas has had a rough time trying to get his film projects off the ground lately. He was working on both Dracula Year Zero and Paradise Lost, but due to budget issues they both fell through. The director is now going to start work on developing a new movie based on the 1942 novel by Robert Heinlein called The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag. Hopefully he has better luck with this one. He's adapted the story into a screenplay and will also direct the film.
Here's the synopsis:
In “Hoag,” the title character is struck one evening with the realization that he has no memory of what he does during the day. Distraught over his predicament, and particularly concerned that he might be engaged in some nefarious activities, he contacts a husband and wife detective agency and asks them to surreptitiously follow him. The truth takes a...
Here's the synopsis:
In “Hoag,” the title character is struck one evening with the realization that he has no memory of what he does during the day. Distraught over his predicament, and particularly concerned that he might be engaged in some nefarious activities, he contacts a husband and wife detective agency and asks them to surreptitiously follow him. The truth takes a...
- 4/10/2012
- by Venkman
- GeekTyrant
With his last two projects, Dracula Year Zero and Paradise Lost, scrapped due to budgetary reasons brought on by our glorious economy, director Alex Proyas has been looking for something cool to sink his teeth into. Well, it doesn't get much cooler than the work of author Robert Heinlein.
From the Press Release
It was announced today that Los Angeles-based film production, finance and international sales company Red Granite Pictures will fully finance and co-produce Alex Proyas’ The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag with Mythology Entertainment, Phoenix Pictures and Mystery Clock Cinema.
Producers are Riza Aziz and Joey McFarland (Red Granite), Bradley Fischer (Mythology Entertainment), Mike Medavoy and Arnie Messier (Phoenix Pictures), Alex Proyas (Mystery Clock Cinema) and Vince Gerardis. Joe Gatta, Topher Dow and Vincent Sieber are executive producers.
Proyas (Dark City, I, Robot, Knowing) will direct The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag. The film will shoot in Australia,...
From the Press Release
It was announced today that Los Angeles-based film production, finance and international sales company Red Granite Pictures will fully finance and co-produce Alex Proyas’ The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag with Mythology Entertainment, Phoenix Pictures and Mystery Clock Cinema.
Producers are Riza Aziz and Joey McFarland (Red Granite), Bradley Fischer (Mythology Entertainment), Mike Medavoy and Arnie Messier (Phoenix Pictures), Alex Proyas (Mystery Clock Cinema) and Vince Gerardis. Joe Gatta, Topher Dow and Vincent Sieber are executive producers.
Proyas (Dark City, I, Robot, Knowing) will direct The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag. The film will shoot in Australia,...
- 4/10/2012
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Alex Proyas hasn’t had much luck lately. The last two films he tried to make, Dracula Year Zero and Paradise Lost, both got scratched for budget reasons. He’s just aligned himself to The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag, based on a Robert Heinlein novella from 1942. Here’s hoping he gets to the start line this time, with funding from upstart company Red Granite. Los Angeles, CA – April 10, 2012 – It was announced today that Los Angeles based film production, finance and international sales company Red Granite Pictures will fully finance and co-produce Alex Proyas’ “The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag” with Mythology Entertainment, Phoenix Pictures and Mystery Clock Cinema. Producers are Riza Aziz and Joey McFarland (Red Granite), Bradley Fischer (Mythology Entertainment), Mike Medavoy and Arnie Messier (Phoenix Pictures), Alex Proyas (Mystery Clock Cinema) and Vince Gerardis. Joe Gatta, Topher Dow and Vincent Sieber are executive producers. Proyas (“Dark City,...
- 4/10/2012
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
Finance and international sales company Red Granite Pictures announced today that they will fully finance and co-produce Alex Proyas' The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag with Mythology Entertainment, Phoenix Pictures and Mystery Clock Cinema. Producers are Riza Aziz and Joey McFarland (Red Granite), Bradley Fischer (Mythology Entertainment), Mike Medavoy and Arnie Messier (Phoenix Pictures), Alex Proyas (Mystery Clock Cinema) and Vince Gerardis. Joe Gatta, Topher Dow and Vincent Sieber are executive producers. Proyas ( Dark City , I, Robot , Knowing ) will direct the film, which will shoot in Australia where Proyas is a resident and operates his production company, Mystery Clock Cinema. Producers are eyeing a fall 2012 start date. In Hoag , the title character is...
- 4/10/2012
- Comingsoon.net
NEW YORK -- Rose Byrne has landed the lead role opposite Nicolas Cage in the sci-fi thriller Knowing for Summit Entertainment and Escape Artists.
Byrne will play the daughter of a woman who buried a 1962 time capsule bearing the dates of the assassinations of historical figures, the hotel fire death of the wife of a professor (Cage) and an imminent world apocalypse. After the professor discovers its contents and alerts her, the initially skeptical Byrne begins remembering strange incidents from her childhood.
Alex Proyas (I, Robot) will direct the screenplay by Ryne Douglas Pearson, with script revisions by Juliet Snowden, Stiles White, Stuart Hazeldine and Proyas. Escape's Jason Blumenthal, Todd Black and Steve Tisch will produce with Topher Dow. Norm Golightly and David Bloomfield are exec producers.
Summit will fully finance and distribute the film, with Erik Feig and Jean Song overseeing the project for the studio. Production is set to begin March 25 in Melbourne, Australia.
Byrne will play the daughter of a woman who buried a 1962 time capsule bearing the dates of the assassinations of historical figures, the hotel fire death of the wife of a professor (Cage) and an imminent world apocalypse. After the professor discovers its contents and alerts her, the initially skeptical Byrne begins remembering strange incidents from her childhood.
Alex Proyas (I, Robot) will direct the screenplay by Ryne Douglas Pearson, with script revisions by Juliet Snowden, Stiles White, Stuart Hazeldine and Proyas. Escape's Jason Blumenthal, Todd Black and Steve Tisch will produce with Topher Dow. Norm Golightly and David Bloomfield are exec producers.
Summit will fully finance and distribute the film, with Erik Feig and Jean Song overseeing the project for the studio. Production is set to begin March 25 in Melbourne, Australia.
The robots in I, Robot are metal figures in black, white and gray with thin limbs and translucent faces and chests. And because the sets are often shot in low light levels, the movie at times resembles a black-and-white 1950s sci-fi thriller.
Which is fitting, for the film works best as a kind of mindless, action-packed B-movie. But on the A-level at which recent science fiction/fantasy films operate -- meaning the Spider-Man, Harry Potter and Terminator series -- this movie falls woefully short. A story about a future revolt of intelligent machines is too old to bear much scrutiny without a new twist. Throw in highly predictable character and story arcs and the film screams, Been there, done that.
Will Smith's drawing power and a snappy marriage of live action with digital elements assure a sizable opening. Domestic boxoffice certainly could exceed $100 million, with much of that coming from young males. Nevertheless, the film will disappoint science fiction fans accustomed to much more from Hollywood's merchants of fantasy.
It's been 36 years since Stanley Kubrick's benchmark 2001: A Space Odyssey. Yet director Alex Proyas and writers Jeff Vintar and Akiva Goldsman, drawing inspiration from Isaac Asimov's seminal sci-fi collection, plunge into a tale of robots and an intelligent, HAL-like computer as if this were unexplored territory. Only one man on Earth seems to realize the dangers robots pose for mankind. Everyone else thinks he is a paranoid nut. Would not cops, scientists and politicians have at least seen all the previous movies? Wouldn't they at least know that when a monopolistic corporation that manufactures robots houses itself in a large, soulless skyscraper only evil can lurk within? Or that when robots talk in soothing, patronizing tones these disguise a malevolent intent?
Apparently not. For Chicago 2035 is a city filled with robots supposedly trained to be docile servants and programd to never harm a human. Then one robot, a new NS-5 model that goes by the name of Sonny, emerges as chief suspect in the death of the scientist who created him, Dr. Alfred Lanning (James Cromwell). Yet brash police detective Del Spooner (Smith) cannot persuade anyone -- not his boss (Chi McBride), the head of U.S. Robotics (Bruce Greenwood) or robot psychiatrist Dr. Susan Calvin (Bridget Moynahan) -- to stop the rollout of the NS-5s. They won't even consider Sonny a suspect.
"What suspect?" his lieutenant demands. "It's a can opener!"
A can of worms is what gets opened. Soon hundreds of vicious NS-5 robots chase and attack Smith when he drives through a tunnel, leaping off large trucks, destroying his car and engaging in hand-to-hand combat. But -- get this -- no one in the middle of the city sees a thing! Everyone writes off the incident to Spooner's mental instability.
Spooner, it turns out, is himself part man and part machine, having been pieced back together by Dr. Lanning following a tragic auto accident. So thanks to his superhuman strength and Dr. Calvin's newfound ability to point a gun, close her eyes and still hit her target -- this after Dr. Calvin becomes convinced of Spooner's theory -- humanity is able to battle back against the NS-5s.
Visual effects supervisor John Nelson and special effects house Digital Domain tackle a movie with more than 1,000 effects shots. Sonny himself is a three-dimensional CG character that channels the voice and movements of actor Alan Tudyk. Yet the robot and human worlds never truly merge. Fights between men and machine look fake, and other than Sonny, no robot develops any personality other than that of relentless menace.
Smith carries the movie on his broad and often bare shoulders, which is a heavy load since nearly everyone including the human cast acts like automatons. Even Smith is not very good company as the script requires him to act pissed-off before given a reason to behave so. Moynahan brings a stiff beauty to the role of the techno-scientist, but her timid filmmakers won't allow romantic sparks to fly between their black male and white female leads. That's not futuristic; that's retro.
I, ROBOT
20th Century Fox
20th Century Fox in association with Mediastream IV present a Davis Entertainment Co./Laurence Mark/Overbrook Films production
Credits:
Director: Alex Proyas
Screenwriters: Jeff Vintar, Akiva Goldsmith
Screen story by: Jeff Vintar
Suggested by stories by: Isaac Asimov
Producers: Laurence Mark, John Davis, Topher Dow, Wyck Godfrey
Executive producers: Will Smith, James Lassiter, Michael Shane, Anthony Romano
Director of photography: Simon Duggan
Production designer: Patrick Tatopoulos
Music: Marco Beltrami
Visual effects supervisor: John Nelson
Co-producer: Steven R. McGlothen
Costume designer: Elizabeth Keogh Palmer
Editors: Richard Learoyd, Armen Minasian, William Hoy. Cast:
Del Spooner: Will Smith
Dr. Susan Calvin: Bridget Moynahan
Sonny: Alan Tudyk
Dr. Alfred Lanning: James Bromwell
Lawrence Robertson: Bruce Greenwood
Granny: Adrian L. Ricard
Lt. John Bergin: Chi McBride
MPAA rating: PG-13
Running time -- 114 minutes...
Which is fitting, for the film works best as a kind of mindless, action-packed B-movie. But on the A-level at which recent science fiction/fantasy films operate -- meaning the Spider-Man, Harry Potter and Terminator series -- this movie falls woefully short. A story about a future revolt of intelligent machines is too old to bear much scrutiny without a new twist. Throw in highly predictable character and story arcs and the film screams, Been there, done that.
Will Smith's drawing power and a snappy marriage of live action with digital elements assure a sizable opening. Domestic boxoffice certainly could exceed $100 million, with much of that coming from young males. Nevertheless, the film will disappoint science fiction fans accustomed to much more from Hollywood's merchants of fantasy.
It's been 36 years since Stanley Kubrick's benchmark 2001: A Space Odyssey. Yet director Alex Proyas and writers Jeff Vintar and Akiva Goldsman, drawing inspiration from Isaac Asimov's seminal sci-fi collection, plunge into a tale of robots and an intelligent, HAL-like computer as if this were unexplored territory. Only one man on Earth seems to realize the dangers robots pose for mankind. Everyone else thinks he is a paranoid nut. Would not cops, scientists and politicians have at least seen all the previous movies? Wouldn't they at least know that when a monopolistic corporation that manufactures robots houses itself in a large, soulless skyscraper only evil can lurk within? Or that when robots talk in soothing, patronizing tones these disguise a malevolent intent?
Apparently not. For Chicago 2035 is a city filled with robots supposedly trained to be docile servants and programd to never harm a human. Then one robot, a new NS-5 model that goes by the name of Sonny, emerges as chief suspect in the death of the scientist who created him, Dr. Alfred Lanning (James Cromwell). Yet brash police detective Del Spooner (Smith) cannot persuade anyone -- not his boss (Chi McBride), the head of U.S. Robotics (Bruce Greenwood) or robot psychiatrist Dr. Susan Calvin (Bridget Moynahan) -- to stop the rollout of the NS-5s. They won't even consider Sonny a suspect.
"What suspect?" his lieutenant demands. "It's a can opener!"
A can of worms is what gets opened. Soon hundreds of vicious NS-5 robots chase and attack Smith when he drives through a tunnel, leaping off large trucks, destroying his car and engaging in hand-to-hand combat. But -- get this -- no one in the middle of the city sees a thing! Everyone writes off the incident to Spooner's mental instability.
Spooner, it turns out, is himself part man and part machine, having been pieced back together by Dr. Lanning following a tragic auto accident. So thanks to his superhuman strength and Dr. Calvin's newfound ability to point a gun, close her eyes and still hit her target -- this after Dr. Calvin becomes convinced of Spooner's theory -- humanity is able to battle back against the NS-5s.
Visual effects supervisor John Nelson and special effects house Digital Domain tackle a movie with more than 1,000 effects shots. Sonny himself is a three-dimensional CG character that channels the voice and movements of actor Alan Tudyk. Yet the robot and human worlds never truly merge. Fights between men and machine look fake, and other than Sonny, no robot develops any personality other than that of relentless menace.
Smith carries the movie on his broad and often bare shoulders, which is a heavy load since nearly everyone including the human cast acts like automatons. Even Smith is not very good company as the script requires him to act pissed-off before given a reason to behave so. Moynahan brings a stiff beauty to the role of the techno-scientist, but her timid filmmakers won't allow romantic sparks to fly between their black male and white female leads. That's not futuristic; that's retro.
I, ROBOT
20th Century Fox
20th Century Fox in association with Mediastream IV present a Davis Entertainment Co./Laurence Mark/Overbrook Films production
Credits:
Director: Alex Proyas
Screenwriters: Jeff Vintar, Akiva Goldsmith
Screen story by: Jeff Vintar
Suggested by stories by: Isaac Asimov
Producers: Laurence Mark, John Davis, Topher Dow, Wyck Godfrey
Executive producers: Will Smith, James Lassiter, Michael Shane, Anthony Romano
Director of photography: Simon Duggan
Production designer: Patrick Tatopoulos
Music: Marco Beltrami
Visual effects supervisor: John Nelson
Co-producer: Steven R. McGlothen
Costume designer: Elizabeth Keogh Palmer
Editors: Richard Learoyd, Armen Minasian, William Hoy. Cast:
Del Spooner: Will Smith
Dr. Susan Calvin: Bridget Moynahan
Sonny: Alan Tudyk
Dr. Alfred Lanning: James Bromwell
Lawrence Robertson: Bruce Greenwood
Granny: Adrian L. Ricard
Lt. John Bergin: Chi McBride
MPAA rating: PG-13
Running time -- 114 minutes...
- 7/30/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Boston Public regular Chi McBride has joined the cast of the sci-fi actioner I, Robot opposite Will Smith for director Alex Proyas and 20th Century Fox. Shooting is scheduled to start May 5 in Vancouver. Inspired by the classic story collection by Isaac Asimov, Robot is a futuristic thriller in which a detective (Smith) investigates a crime that may have been perpetrated by a robot, even though the three prevailing laws of the robot society suggest that such a crime is impossible. Bridget Moynahan and Alan Tudyk round out the cast. McBride will play the lieutenant boss of Smith's character who urges the detective to close the case to lessen any political fallout from the incident. Laurence Mark and John Davis are producing with Wyck Godfrey and Topher Dow executive producing. Robot was penned by Jeff Vintar, Hillary Seitz and Akiva Goldsman, the latter of whom wrote the most recent draft. TCF topper Hutch Parker is overseeing along with Emma Watts. McBride is repped by UTA and manager Sam Maydew at Pop Art Management. His feature credits include Cradle 2 the Grave, Undercover Brother and Narc.
- 4/25/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A Knight's Tale star Alan Tudyk is ready to follow in the footsteps of Andy Serkis and the CGI creation Gollum from The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. Tudyk has been cast as the animation reference for the CGI character Sonny opposite Will Smith in the sci-fi actioner I, Robot for 20th Century Fox and director Alex Proyas. Shooting is to begin in May on the project, being produced by Laurence Mark and John Davis, with Wyck Godfrey and Topher Dow executive producing. The project, inspired by the classic story collection by Isaac Asimov, is a futuristic thriller in which a detective (Smith) investigates a crime that may have been perpetrated by a robot (Tudyk), even though the three prevailing laws of the robot society suggest that such a crime is impossible.
Will Smith is in negotiations to star in 20th Century Fox's I, Robot, a big-screen adaptation of Isaac Asimov's classic science fiction book series. Alex Proyas (Dark City) will direct. Production is scheduled to begin in the spring, with John Davis, Lawrence Mark and Topher Dow producing. Adapted by Jeff Vintar, Robot revolves around a society in which robots function alongside human beings in a servile capacity and are both harmless and helpful. The story line centers on a technophobic police officer (Smith) who is called in to investigate a murder that he believes was committed by a robot and uncovers a giant conspiracy.
- 12/4/2002
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Will Smith is in negotiations to star in 20th Century Fox's I, Robot, a big-screen adaptation of Isaac Asimov's classic science fiction book series. Alex Proyas (Dark City) will direct. Production is scheduled to begin in the spring, with John Davis, Lawrence Mark and Topher Dow producing. Adapted by Jeff Vintar, Robot revolves around a society in which robots function alongside human beings in a servile capacity and are both harmless and helpful. The story line centers on a technophobic police officer (Smith) who is called in to investigate a murder that he believes was committed by a robot and uncovers a giant conspiracy.
- 12/4/2002
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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