Steven Spielberg explains why he shelved Robopocalypse
Steven Spielberg shelved sci-fi epic Robopocalypse because it was on course to become “the most expensive movie” he’d ever made.
The director wanted to bring Daniel H. Wilson’s 2011 novel to the big screen, but he worried it would be a “company-ender” if it failed to make back its estimated $200 million budget.
He told Empire magazine: “It was gargantuan. It was a company-ender. It would have ended a whole studio that would have never made its money back”.