twentieth century Fox Sets Isaac Asimovs The Caves Of Steel, With Henry Hobson Pointing

EXCLUSIVE: twentieth century Fox, which drawn on into Isaac Asimov’s advanced robot sci-fi for I, Robot, has become focusing on an active-action adaptation of Asimov’sThe Caves of Steel. The studio has set Henry Hobson to direct and John Scott 3 to evolve the murder mystery which was first released like a book in 1954. The director and author are presently in pre-production on Maggie, a spec script that tracks the six-week metamorphosis of the 16-year-old girl right into a zombie after she becomes infected and is constantly on the accept her family. Trained in the Royal College of Art working in london like a graphic designer, Hobson is an expert in creating inventive title sequences for films that incorporated A Virtual Detective for Prologue Films. The scribe appears suitable to evolve Asimov’s visionary prose. If not writing scripts, Scott develops command systems for NASAs flagship X-ray satellite. He works together with the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, that takes photos of X-ray photons in deep space. The Caves of Steel is going to be created by Simon Kinberg, the X-Males scribe whose Genre Films banner relies in the studio and who's at this time creating the Neill Blomkamp-directed Elysium, which stars Matt Damon, Jodie Promote and Sharlto Copley. Much like I, Robot (which Fox converted into popular film with Will Cruz), The Caves of Steel is really a murder mystery that happens 1,000 years later on, with an overpopulated Earth where there's a fear about robots. The title describes giant city complexes which are necessary because Earth is really overpopulated. While robots can be used for labor in outlying “spacer mobile phone industry's” in which the wealthy survive spacious parcels, the robots are outlawed on the planet. A Spacer Ambassador lobbying to release Earth’s anti-robot limitations is located dead, his chest imploded by a power blaster, along with a detective is matched up having a human-searching robot to resolve the crime. Hobson is repped by CAA and Entertainment.