Got a fear of robot uprising? Mike Myers does. He’s signed up to star in the comedy How to Upstage a Robot Uprising, a movie based on an instruction manual written by a doctoral candidate from a Robotic Institute named Daniel H. Wilson. I’m not sure what kind of instruction manual lends itself to Mike Myers comedy, but the instructions contained within it must be rather good.
Variety says Myers will play a technical administrator given the job of sounding warnings against the increased existence of robots, and must also find ways to prevent those proliferating robots from taking over. You can’t give those bastards an inch!
It’s being directed by Michael De Luca, who has never directed anything but has done a lot of producing on movies like Myers’ own Austin Powers movies. Wilson’s manual is being reworked into a movie script by Thomas Lennon and Ben Garant, whom you might remember as the creators of TV’s “Reno 911”. They know funny, but do they know robot incursion?
Sometimes a project comes along that sounds almost too good. A movie about random robot attacks being foiled by a bored technical administrator is comedic gold, and you can’t be a title like How to Upstage a Robot Uprising. Can the movie live up to the kind of potential a title like that carries with it? Probably not, but if we’re lucky maybe this will be 2007’s Snakes On a Plane. I’ve had it with those robots!
