Posted on 10/21/2010 6:54:14 AM PDT by tlb
It's been over three years since we last heard about Ron Howard's remake of the 1970 film Colossus: The Forbin Project, an adaptation of the 1966 sci-fi novel by Dennis Feltham Jones. But in the recent news about writer Jason Rothenberg scripting the adaptation of The Twilight Zone, Deadline included a second story unto itself.
The writer is also adapting Colossus for Universal and Imagine Entertainment, but the real gem in the story brings news that Will Smith is attached to star in the story about the world's first-ever sentient computer and the misunderstood genius who gains power over the world because of its unprecedented abilities.
In addition, the script will take cues from two additional novels that followed Jones' original story.
This would mark the first time Will Smith and Ron Howard have worked together on a project, and the first straight up sci-fi venture for Howard as a director. This seems like it might be a little similar to I, Robot, but since Deadline describes it as a Frankenstein story, there's likely more than meets the eye.
(Excerpt) Read more at firstshowing.net ...
That’s enough to make you believe in the end times.
All I ever see in a Will Smith movie, is a hip, lightweight, TV actor named Will Smith.
Randy Quaid was nice too.
But that movie was full of PC stereotyping and usual Hollywood fare....some righty pundits actually commented on this aspect. Cataclysm movies do that a lot.
It was a Bruckheimer blockbuster was it not?
some of his movies are pretty non insulting and lecturing but big
I just never liked Smith, I find his wife very manly and this notion that he is a modern black Jimmy Stewart in a solid marriage is a joke. He is a nutty left wing Scientologist in an open marriage.
Of course with obamacare around the bend, we won't really need a remake of that one.
Good point.
His character was the best in the movie. He was the hardworking, hard drinking Viet Nam vet that had been to hell and back. He stuck by his convictions in spite of all the harassment and everybody who thought of him as a kook. In the end, it turned out he was right all along, and he still ends up sacrificing everything for his kid's future.
Now that I'm thinking about it...his character was kind of a proto-tea partier!
There were some parts of the second book that were VERY un-PC (Forbin's wife sent away for "punishment"), no way anything like that would be allowed today...
Be on the lookout for them to cast Colossus as the World Wide Web that has been taken over by right-wing bloggers and FRee Republic and the good guys as the Dinosaur Media who have been put out of business.
I agree, Baldwin’s great in Chuck - and was simply terrific in Firefly.
It’s a Ron Howard, I would not pay one cent to see something he puts together. Plus ANOTHER remake! BOO! And Will Smith = so what and boring. It sure won’t be on my list of things to watch, ever
Thanks!
No, a remake of Zardoz starring Robert Pattinson, or Taylor Lautner, or better, or worse yet, Ashton Kuchar.
IMO they’re remaking it now for exactly the same reason they made it then: in the mid to late 1970’s our economy was in a world of hurt, and somebody discovered that The End Of It All in various forms sold tickets. (The amazing sequence of big-time disaster movies like “Posideon Adventure” and “Airport” is another matter.)
Recall “Rollover”, “Soylent Green”, and many “Planet of the Apes” movies that came out over the span of just a few years — they all ended very badly indeed.
How many people ever heard of Zardoz, much less like it. (I do!)
And if this falls through, Will Smith will star in the Tyler Perry-directed remake of “Soylent Green”, called “Soul Brother Wafers.”
Soul Brother Wafers and a bowl of Condoleeza Rice.
...with Al Gore as Tim Berners-Lee?
An idea pick would have been Harrison Ford or Mel Gibson.
I cant really see Smith as a computer wiz. He didnt sell me as a MD in I am Legend.
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