{"id":2833,"date":"2011-09-25T11:26:01","date_gmt":"2011-09-25T07:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/?p=2833"},"modified":"2011-09-25T11:26:01","modified_gmt":"2011-09-25T07:26:01","slug":"20th-century-fox-sets-isaac-asimovs-the-caves-of-steel-henry-hobson-to-direct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/20th-century-fox-sets-isaac-asimovs-the-caves-of-steel-henry-hobson-to-direct\/","title":{"rendered":"20th Century Fox Sets Isaac Asimov\u2019s \u2018The Caves Of Steel,\u2019 Henry Hobson To Direct"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Deadline<\/a><\/p>\n

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20th Century Fox, which tapped into Isaac Asimov\u2019s futuristic robot science fiction for\u00a0I, Robot,<\/em>\u00a0is now working on a live-action adaptation of Asimov\u2019s\u00a0The Caves of Steel.<\/em>\u00a0The studio has set Henry Hobson to direct and John Scott 3 to adapt the murder mystery that was first published as a book in 1954. The director and writer are currently in pre-production on\u00a0Maggie<\/em>, a\u00a0spec<\/a>\u00a0script that tracks the six-week metamorphosis of a 16-year-old girl into a zombie after she becomes infected and continues to live with her family. Trained at the Royal College of Art in London as a graphic designer, Hobson specializes in creating inventive title sequences for films that included\u00a0Sherlock Holmes\u00a0<\/em>for Prologue Films. The scribe seems well suited to adapt Asimov\u2019s visionary prose. When not writing scripts, Scott builds command systems for NASA\u2019s flagship X-ray satellite. He works with the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, which takes photos of X-ray photons in deep space.<\/p>\n

The Caves of Steel<\/em>\u00a0will be produced by Simon Kinberg, the\u00a0X-Men<\/em>\u00a0scribe whose Genre Films banner is based at the studio and who is right now producing the Neill Blomkamp-directed\u00a0Elysium,<\/em>\u00a0which stars Matt Damon, Jodie Foster and Sharlto Copley. Similar to\u00a0I, Robot<\/em>\u00a0(which Fox turned into a hit film with Will Smith),\u00a0The Caves of Steel<\/em>\u00a0is a murder mystery that takes place 1,000 years in the future, on an overpopulated Earth where there is a phobia about robots. The title refers to giant city complexes that are necessary because Earth is so overpopulated. While robots are used for labor in outlying \u201cspacer worlds\u201d where the rich live on spacious parcels, the robots are outlawed on Earth. A Spacer Ambassador lobbying to loosen Earth\u2019s anti-robot restrictions is found dead, his chest imploded by an energy blaster, and a detective is matched with a human-looking robot to solve the crime. Hobson is repped by CAA and Energy Entertainment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From Deadline 20th Century Fox, which tapped into Isaac Asimov\u2019s futuristic robot science fiction for\u00a0I, Robot,\u00a0is now working on a live-action adaptation of Asimov\u2019s\u00a0The Caves of Steel.\u00a0The studio has set Henry Hobson to direct and John Scott 3 to adapt the murder mystery that was first published as a book in 1954. 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