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Bruckheimer Launches World War Robot

July 31, 2009

Producer Jerry Bruckheimer has picked up the rights to the IDW graphic novel World War Robot written and drawn by artist Ashley Wood as a war diary written by the participants in a battle between humans and robots that takes place on Earth, the moon and Mars.

Variety reports that the deal was closed during last week's Comic-Con, following on the heels of the IDW comic 30 Days of Night having been turned into a film by Sony which grossed $40 million.

The story reports that IDW is currently the third largest publisher behind Marvel and DC thanks to comics based on licensed titles such as "Star Trek," "24," "CSI" and others.

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COMMENTS (20)

Posted by:

Zack

August 1, 2009

That's gotta be one big movie.

Posted by:

strekmcl

August 1, 2009

wow

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Vforge

August 1, 2009

Sounds interesting. I'll be watching for more info. We really need a decent robot war movie. The tech is finally where it needs to be to make it not suck.

Posted by:

Post Human

August 1, 2009

Hope theres a great script behind it.

Posted by:

Slymm

August 1, 2009

So... Terminator... but on other celestial bodies and not just earth?

Posted by:

Nicolas Cage

August 1, 2009

This concept is so stupid. One, noone would ever call a war World War Robot, as it makes no sense. At all. Two, it would be the most insane tactic ever to fight a war on the moon.

Posted by:

David

August 1, 2009

Disney already purchased the domain name, guess it will be done with Touchstone.

Sounds like a good premise, just don't let Bay near it.

Posted by:

hld

August 1, 2009

Oh Nicholas, you seem to think that people actually care about your thoughts. It's called "suspension of belief," for a reason. Enjoy it for what it is, not what you think it should be.

Posted by:

tim

August 1, 2009

hld, you're right. Enjoy it for what it's worth. But also, you should know, it's suspension of DISbelief. You suspend not believing it's possible. "Nicholas Cage" up there is practicing suspension of belief.

But other than your technical faux pas, you're dead on. I'm looking forward to more information, even though I'm not a fan of graphic novels in general.

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Jared

August 1, 2009

Jerry bruckheimer has a good eye for what to produce, I love every thing he is involved with. he is the man when it comes to movies so this should be good.