Sci-Fi Film and Television Developments

Singularity

11/10/11 - Roland Emmerich’s Singularity has halted pre-production in order to focus on the script, according to The Hollywood Reporter.  The movie was due to begin shooting in March 2012 in Montreal, and Emmerich was due to read with actors this week as it worked towards a May 2013 release but those plans have changed as Emmerich has decided to work on the script.  Insiders say that Emmerich wasn’t happy with the screenplay, which focuses on a young man whose body is made up a swarm of nanobots, giving him all sorts of powers at the same time as it brings unwanted attention from an evil corporation. Emmerich wrote the script with frequent collaborator Harald Kloser.  Emmerich and the studio are bringing in futurist and AI specialist Ray Kurzweil to work with Emmerich. Singularity is a term used by technologists to signify the emergence of a super-intelligence that would overtake human intelligence.

12/13/10 - Neve Campbell is in negotiations to play Josh Hartnett's wife in the time-travel drama Singularity, according to The Hollywood Reporter.  Taking place in 1778 and 2015, the film involves intertwining souls, past lives and a ring. Hartnett is playing two characters: an archeologist who falls into a coma and a British captain in colonial India. Campbell will play Hartnett's wife and fellow archeologist in 2015, who gets stuck in a sunken ship while trying to retrieve a ring.  The movie is scheduled to begin shooting in Australia and India in January. Roland Joffe directs.

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