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Los Angeles, Jan. 10 (Reuters): Steven Spielberg’s DreamWorks studio has indefinitely postponed Robopocalypse, the director's next film, distributor Walt Disney has said.
Disney did not give a reason for the delay, but a source with knowledge of the film said the director was dissatisfied with the script and production budget estimates.
DreamWorks, a private company half owned by Indian conglomerate Reliance Group, would finance the film with News Corp’s Fox studio, which had co-financed Spielberg’s 2002 futuristic film Minority Report.
The science-fiction movie was set to begin production this spring and be released in April 2014. No new date was announced.
Robopocalypse is based on Daniel H. Wilson’s futuristic novel about a war between humans and robots intent on destroying them.
“It’s about the consequences of creating technologies that make our lives easier, and what happens when that technology becomes smarter than we are,” Spielberg told his War Horse star Tom Hiddleston in an interview in early 2012 for Time Out Film.
The script, which is being written by The Cabin in the Woods writer and director Drew Goddard, wasn’t “landing where Steven wanted it”, according to the source.
The film was scheduled to star Anne Hathaway and Chris Hemsworth, according to the movie reference site imdb.com.
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