Release Date: 2013-00-00
Release
Distributors: Dimension Films (The Weinstein Co.)
Directors: Tim Hill
Status: In Production
Film Genre(s): Comedy
United States
SYNOPSIS
Drafted by Matt Lieberman and based on 1the 1986 film that introduced Number 5, a robot built by the military to be a highly sophisticated weapon. It developed a conscience and a personality after being hit by lightning, and then needed the help of humans after it was targeted for destruction by its makers, once it became a peacenik.PREVIEW NOTES
- Variety reports that Dimension Films has acquired the rights to the 1986 film. S.S. Wilson and Brent Maddock, who created the characters and wrote both "Short Circuit" films, have been hired to write the remake. David Foster and Ryan E. Heppe will produce with John Hyde. - 2008-04-03
- Variety reports that Dan Milano has been hired to write the script. - 2009-06-03
- Deadline reports that director Tim Hill has joined this project. - 2011-08-04
- Dimension Films announces that Matt Lieberman will write this remake. - 2012-02-02
"Ron and I wanted to make a film that looked at what it means to be an outsider and we wanted to explore what it takes to reach out to someone whose life is very removed from your own."
