{"id":24093,"date":"2016-03-29T20:01:28","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T03:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/this-wonderful-short-about-a-robot-war-deserves-to-be-a-full-length-film"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:36:06","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:36:06","slug":"this-wonderful-short-about-a-robot-war-deserves-to-be-a-full-length-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/this-wonderful-short-about-a-robot-war-deserves-to-be-a-full-length-film","title":{"rendered":"This Wonderful Short About a Robot War Deserves to Be a Full-Length Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-wonderful-short-about-a-robot-war-deserves-to-be-a-full-length-film.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Back in 2014, <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.gizmodo.com\/crowdfund-a-robot-insurgency-film-from-the-writers-of-f-1614829132\">we told you<\/a> about <em>Rise<\/em>, a film about a robot insurgency that was the subject of a Kickstarter campaign. The result of the $38,000 raised is this proof of concept video, which definitely looks good enough to deserve a full feature.<\/p>\n<p><em> Rise <\/em>comes from director David Karlak and writers Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton (<em>Feast<\/em>). It\u2019s one of those classic robot revolution stories. Of course, in this case you find yourself in the awkward position of rooting for the failure of humans, but that\u2019s sometimes how these things shake out. Plus, it\u2019s always easier to side with Anton Yelchin than Rufus Sewell.<\/p>\n<p>This is clearly a pitch for some studio to give them money to make a full thing, and it\u2019s one of the most successful of that genre I\u2019ve ever seen. There\u2019s clearly a story in mind and Karlak\u2019s vision looks great in these five minutes.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.gizmodo.com\/this-wonderful-short-about-a-robot-war-deserves-to-be-a-1767730785\">http:\/\/io9.gizmodo.com\/this-wonderful-short-about-a-robot-wa...1767730785<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2014, we told you about Rise, a film about a robot insurgency that was the subject of a Kickstarter campaign. The result of the $38,000 raised is this proof of concept video, which definitely looks good enough to deserve a full feature. Rise comes from director David Karlak and writers Marcus Dunstan and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24093","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\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24093"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62236,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24093\/revisions\/62236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}