Luminosity Entertainment, a company formed earlier this year by Elie Samaha, Geno Taylor, and Daniel Diamond, is teaming up with Dean Altit’s Altit Media Group and Kia Jam’s K.Jam Media to produce Bot Wars, described by Deadline as a “sci-fi tentpole film”. Bot Wars is based on a pair of novels written by J.V. Kade (a.k.a. Jenn Rush) that were published in 2013 and 2014. The film will be directed by the filmmaking duo of Alexander Kiesl and Steffen Hacker (Ingenium).
Bot Wars will tell the story of
how mankind was brought to the brink of extinction by waging war against Artificial Intelligence and sentient Robots, and how human ingenuity and the primal instinct to survive led to mankind’s ultimate victory.
Sounds like something along the lines of the Terminator franchise.
Kade’s Bot Wars (buy a copy HERE) has the following description:
Twelve-year-old Trout St. Kroix has been searching for his missing father for the last two years, after his dad disappeared while fighting in the Bot Wars. The Bot Wars began after robots became so advanced that they revolted and demanded more workers’ rights, causing the government to declare all robots terrorists and ban them from the Districts. Trout never questioned anything the government told him–even when his own nanny bot was banished–until a vid he posts about his missing dad goes viral and new information pops up. At first Trout is wrenched his dad might be alive, but when his brother disappears, Trout learns nothing is what it seems . . . not even his own father.
The second book, The Meta-Rise (buy it HERE) has this description:
Trout St. Kroix can’t believe that his half-human/half-robot father is the leader of the Meta-Rise, the robot civil rights movement. Trout can’t even enjoy being a Bot Territory celebrity, because it also puts his whole family in danger. Ratch, a robot and former friend, has found a way to take control of robot Thinkchips, and under Ratch’s control, all bots—including Trout’s dad—would become Ratch’s drones. Can Trout—and his friends Vee and Tellie Rix, along with brother Po—find a way to stop Ratch before Trout loses his father all over again?
I wasn’t familiar with the books before this announcement, but Luminosity, Altit Media, and K.Jam Media clearly have faith that Kade’s stories could serve as the basis of a very popular movie.
Luminosity’s Daniel Diamond had this to say about the project:
The world and characters brought to life in J.V. Kade’s novels are tremendously original, thrilling and thought provoking. We are very excited to be working with Dean and Kia in bringing Alexander and Steffen’s vision of this incredible story to the big screen.”
We’ll keep you updated on Bot Wars as the project continues to move forward.