J. J. Abrams to Adapt Steampunk Graphic Novel Boilerplate
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J. J. Abrams continues to keep busy as his Bad Robot production company has picked up another property for the big screen. This time out, they’ll be adapting Boilerplate: History’s Mechanical Marvel , a graphic novel-picture book hybrid by Paul Guinan and Anina Bennett. The film will 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.” The story sounds like …
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