{"id":444,"date":"2008-04-09T07:18:19","date_gmt":"2008-04-08T21:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/04\/09\/the-robo-revolution-continues\/"},"modified":"2008-04-09T07:20:17","modified_gmt":"2008-04-08T21:20:17","slug":"the-robo-revolution-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/04\/09\/the-robo-revolution-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"The Robo-Revolution Continues…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Or perhaps it’s the Takeover of the Toy Franchises that’s continuing…<\/p>\n

The Hollywood Reporter<\/a> has revealed that the Wow Wee’s Robosapien remote-controlled robot line<\/a> is about to be fictionalised on celluloid by writers Avi Arad and Max Botkin. To be directed by Senn McNamara, the film is currently being called Robosapien: Rebooted<\/strong>. The plot goes like this:<\/p>\n

Bobby Coleman will play a boy who befriends a robot on the run from malevolent corporate interests<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sounds suspiciously like an unofficial remake of John Badham’s Short Circuit<\/em> (1986), which is itself being officially remade<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Anyway, Robosapien: Rebooted<\/em>‘s director Senn McNamara also directed the Bratz<\/em> movie, in case you find that encouraging.<\/p>\n

Here’s some test footage:<\/p>\n

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By the way, it’s not really<\/em> test footage. I was joking…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Or perhaps it’s the Takeover of the Toy Franchises that’s continuing… The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that the Wow Wee’s Robosapien remote-controlled robot line is about to be fictionalised on celluloid by writers Avi Arad and Max Botkin. To be … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,24,56,3,61],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}