20th Century Fox has scored the film rights to Isaac Asimov’s 1954 novel “The Caves of Steel” reports Deadline
Set in the 30th century, the story is set in a time when humans on Earth have grown increasingly paranoid of ‘spacers’, advanced humans who perform slave labor on outer planets and whose society has grown apart from those on Earth.
When a reformist “spacer” ambassador is murdered, a detective pairs up with a robot disguised as a human to solve the crime.
Henry Hobson directs from a script adaptation by John Scott the Third. the duo are currently in pre-production on the teen zombie girl tale “Maggie”.
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