Short Circuit Remake - an original 1986 sci-fi comedy about a robot who’s started to think due to short circuit - will be directed by Steve Carr, who has been signed to the role by Dimension Films.
(Left) Number 5 from Short Circuit, (Right) Pixar's Wall-E
It’s been a year since it was first reported Dimenson Films had acquired the rights to remake the 1986 sci-fi comedy Short Circuit. Now they have announced that Dan Milano has been tapped to write the screenplay.
The original sci-fi comedy told the story of SAINT Number 5 (Number 5 for short) who gains sentience after a short circuit caused by a lightning strike.
Milano, who is most well known for writing and providing voices for the Adult Swim cartoon Robot Chicken, apparently intends to bring a ’subversive edge’ to the remake.
David Foster, who produced the original film and who will return to produce the remake said, “We’re bringing Number 5 into the 21st Century and taking advantage of the improvements in robotics that are so massive that robots are now performing heart surgeries in hospitals,” Foster said.
Foster confirmed that Short Circuit will essentially look the same as the original despite the similarities to Pixar’s Wall-E.
“We think of Wall-E as an extended trailer for our film, because it’s the same face,” Foster said.
Short Circuit will be released sometime in 2010.
Source: Variety
