Director Michael Bay ("Transformers") is in negotiations to adapt author Daniel H. Wilson's science fiction novel "Robopocalypse" (2011) as a tent-pole feature for co-producers Twentieth Century Fox and DreamWorks:
...in the near future, an increasingly robot-reliant society faces extinction after a computer scientist accidentally unleashes a sentient artificial intelligence named 'Archos', that becomes 'self aware' and immediately takes steps to stop his own destruction.
"By infecting all devices that are chip controlled (cars, elevators, robots, etc), Archos begins a systematic attack on mankind.
"Small bands of survivors find ways to circumvent the eradication. This is the story of those survivors in the months and days leading up to and following Archos' self-awareness..."
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