Studio:
20th Century Fox.
Production Company:
Unknown.
Project Phase:
Development Hell.
Who's In It:
Unknown.
Who's Making It:
Jeff Vintar (Screenwriter).
Premise:
In a murder investigation suspects are eliminated by method of deduction. But when the suspects are
all self-aware machine intelligences, how do you deduce who the murderer is?
Release Date:
Unknown.
Comments:
Unknown.
Rumors:
Unknown.
Scoop Feedback:
December 8, 1998... We heard of the title and the gist of the story before, but with the script stuck in
turnaround there was nothing to report on. Then this email rolled onto our hard drive:
"20th Century Fox just picked this script up in turnaround from Walt Disney. It's an old-fashioned murder mystery, really, sort of like an Agatha Christie, I guess.
Except that all of the suspects in the murder are artificial intelligences of varying degrees of intelligence. A pretty dog-gone cool idea. Bryan Singer was attached to
direct at Disney, with Laurence Mark producing, although that may change now. Still, a cool project resurrected by Fox, from a spec script sale by Jeff Vintar from a
few years back. Might be worth keeping an eye on?"
If Fox has picked up the project then things might warm up a bit. We'll keep our ears open for anything. [Scooped by anonymous.]