Following the film adaptation of sci-fi writer Isaac Asimov’s I, Robot in 2004, 20th Century Fox seeks to bring another of Asimov’s futuristic stories to the big screen. Fox has begun work on a live-action adaptation of the Asimov anti-robot murder mystery, The Caves of Steel.
According to Deadline, Henry Hobson will helm the project with John Scott 3 adapting the book. The duo is currently working on a low-budget zombie flick entitled Maggie. You might recognize Hobson’s work as the creative titles designer on Sherlock Holmes and The Walking Dead. Simon Kinberg, who was recently a producer for Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and X-Men: First Class, will be a producer on this project.
The Caves of Steel is set a thousand years into the future where Earth suffers from overpopulation. The rich have left Earth for “spacer worlds” with robot labor, but robots have been banned from Earth itself. When a Spacer Ambassador lobbies for the robot ban to be relaxed on Earth, he is murdered. The story follows a detective and a “human-looking robot” tasked to solve the mystery of the Ambassador’s murder.
No release date has been announced for The Caves of Steel yet.
