Steam punk about the first robot from JJ Abrams
President Theodore Roosevelt and Lawrence Aravinsky are the heroes of graphic novel "Boilerplate: History's Mechanical Marvel". The rights to its film adaptation acquired studio Paramount, a producer of the film will be JJ Abrams and his company Bad Robot.
"Boilerplate" tells the story of the world's first robot, which in the late XIX - early XX centuries fought along with Theodore Roosevelt and Lawrence Aravinsky, traveled to the South Pole and was fond of silent cinema. Boilerplate disappeared from sight on the battlefields of the First World War.
In the graphic novel the hero is present not only in drawings, but also by old photographs. The "Boilerplate" has been invented by Paul Hainan and his wife Anna Bennett. To promote a comic in 2000, they launched an Internet site devoted to the alleged first robot. Archival photographs attracted the attention of users, and time resources started to live their lives, as many have taken the history of Boilerplate for the truth.
According to legend, the robot was created in 1880 by Professor Archibald Campion and first shown publicly at an exhibition in Chicago 13 years later. The raison of existence the Boilerplate defines itself as "the prevention of human deaths and conflicts between countries". Campion with the robot went through many adventures, traveled around the planet, made films, were friends with Mark Twain and Nicola Tesla.
Boilerplate traveled to Antarctica to save the life of the expedition, and also participated in the Spanish-American War. Disappeared from the radar of historians during the First World War. Supposedly it has been taken by the Germans, therefore they were able to improve their military equipment.
When Abrams Company will begin to develop the project, who will be a screenwriter, and who had to make a film about Boilerplate, will be known a little bit later.