Just over a year ago, we told you about director J.J. Abrams’ production company, Bad Robot finally handling a project about a robot when Paramount Pictures secured the rights to the graphic novel Boilerplate: History’s Mechanical Marvel, and Deborah Newmyer of Outlaw Productions subsequently brought the project to Bad Robot.

Now, Deadline reports that Paramount and Bad Robot have hired John D. Payne and Patrick McKay (Goliath) to adapt the Paul Guinan and Anina Bennett graphic novel-picture book hybrid about the world’s first robot, who, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, fought alongside Teddy Roosevelt and Lawrence of Arabia, journeyed to the South Pole and was involved in the silent movie business before disappearing on the battlefields of World War I.

The book tells Boilerplate’s story by inserting the character into pictures drawn in the style of the age (see below).

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No production or release dates have been announced for Boilerplate.