Today Deadline received word that Michael Bay’s production company Platinum Dunes will be making a film adaptation of the IDW comic Zombies vs. Robots. And thus concludes another game of terrible-movie mad libs.
Hollywood’s fixation with robots and the undead has fueled a spec package deal that includes underlying rights to the IDW comic Zombies Vs. Robots [My God, that must’ve taken 5, maybe 10 minutes to come up with]. JT Petty [I’m picturing sunglasses on the back of the neck, a do-rag] has used the comic as the basis for a spec script called Inherit the Earth. The film will be a co-production between Platinum Dunes, Circle of Confusion and IDW, and produced by Michael Bay, Brad Fuller, Andrew Form, Dave Alpert and Rick Jacobs. More than one studio was interested. The film focuses on a young girl who is the last survivor on earth. She is protected by a group of robots [oh God I hope one of them is sassy and black] from a pack of zombies that are intelligent and evolved. IDW’s title World War Robot is being developed by Jerry Bruckheimer. [Deadline]
“World War Robot.” F*ck me. That’s not a title, that’s just buzz words stuck together, like “Lights, Camera, Vampire”, or “Resident Evil: Werewolf.” The projects that get greenlit these days, it just seems like they throw darts at the spinning wheel of recycled sci-fi tropes from 50 years ago. Granted, Michael Bay has a busty starlet throwing the darts and the wheel is a live tiger, but still. Shave some new ideas onto that tiger, this is bullsh*t.