Extinction
God I hope this movie gets made. It sounds like it could be
one of the best Sci Fi movies to come along in a long time.
From Cinescape.com.
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Sony Pictures Entertainment has snagged a science fiction
film pitch called Extinction. According to Variety, the pitch
was made by the creative team of Laura Harckom and Chris Leone
for a figure in the low-six against mid-six figures. The eventual
film will tell the story of an earth 300 years in the future
when mankind has been destroyed by a worldwide plague. When
a computer virus turns up in the still functioning robot survivors
of earth, it seems the only way to save themselves is to bring
the human race back from the grave courtesy of stored DNA
samples.
The project was initially pitched as an animated feature,
but Sony preferred live-action. Harckom explained the reasoning
to the trade saying, "We pitched it as animation, but with
the advent of CGI in films like Star Wars and The Mummy, they
said, ÔWhy not do this live action with CGI?Õ ThereÕs naturally
a lot of interest in doing this after the success of The Matrix,
and this is sort of Matrix-esque."
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