{"id":109452,"date":"2020-07-02T22:22:19","date_gmt":"2020-07-03T05:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/hollywood-is-banking-that-a-robot-named-erica-can-be-the-next-movie-star"},"modified":"2020-07-02T22:22:19","modified_gmt":"2020-07-03T05:22:19","slug":"hollywood-is-banking-that-a-robot-named-erica-can-be-the-next-movie-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/hollywood-is-banking-that-a-robot-named-erica-can-be-the-next-movie-star","title":{"rendered":"Hollywood Is Banking That a Robot Named Erica Can Be the Next Movie Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hollywood-is-banking-that-a-robot-named-erica-can-be-the-next-movie-star2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>She can\u2019t get sick or be late to the set, and her hair and makeup needs are minimal: Her name is Erica, and Hollywood is hoping that a sophisticated robot can be its next big star. The synthetic actor has been cast in \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/b\/\" id=\"auto-tag_b\">b<\/a>,\u201d a $70 million science-fiction movie which producer <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/sam-khoze\/\" id=\"auto-tag_sam-khoze\">Sam Khoze<\/a> describes as \u201ca James Bond meets Mission Impossible story with heart.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Scribe Tarek Zohdy (\u201c1st Born\u201d), says, the story is about scientists who create an AI robot named Erica who quickly realize the danger of this top-secret program that is trying to perfect a human through a non-human form.<\/p>\n<p><em>Variety<\/em> caught up with the filmmakers Zohdy and Khoze to discuss \u201cb\u201d the $70 million film that plans to finish shooting next year, after a director and human star have been brought on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She can\u2019t get sick or be late to the set, and her hair and makeup needs are minimal: Her name is Erica, and Hollywood is hoping that a sophisticated robot can be its next big star. The synthetic actor has been cast in \u201cb,\u201d a $70 million science-fiction movie which producer Sam Khoze describes as [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,45,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-finance","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}