According to the Hollywood Reporter last month (wow i am so behind of late) J.J. Abrams' production company has picked up the movie rights to Paul Guinan and Anina Bennett's Boilerplate."Boilerplate purports to tell the story of 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."
It's a fun character that has been around for a while online. Guinan created a fantastic website about eleven years ago to try to drum up interest in a graphic novel featuring the character, which attracted a bit of a cult following. Apparently some gullible folks even fell for the faked images on the site and believed the robot to be a genuine part of history.
More recently there was an illustrated-novel-coffee-table-book-thing released last year called Boilerplate: History's Mechanical Marvel, which i recommend highly.
I love this character and think this could make a fantastic movie if handled correctly.
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