Bobby Coleman (Martian Child) will play a boy who befriends a robot on the run from malevolent corporate interests in "Robosapien: Rebooted," which has begun filming in New Orleans. The cast also includes Penelope Ann Miller, David Eigenberg, Holliston Coleman, Joaquim de Almeida and Kim Coates.
Avi Arad and Steven Paul are producing the $25-$30 million movie, based on Wow Wee's Robosapien remote-controlled robot, under their respective Arad Prods. and Crystal Sky Pictures banners. Sean McNamara (Bratz) is directing the script by Arad and Max Botkin from Botkin's story.
The story concerns a scientist working on artificial intelligence who creates robots for humanitarian purposes, only to discover that the corporation he works for intends them for military use. He steals one of his creations, a robot boy named Toby, who, by a series of accidents, gets lost and broken, and then found and fixed by the lonely 11-year-old son of a harassed single mother.
The robot and boy become friends, and embark on a series of adventures, pursued by the authorities, climaxing with them having to rescue the scientist and the mother from prison.
Arad, whose own background is as a toy inventor, has personally designed Toby as the latest model in the Robosapiens range, to go into shops alongside the movie's release.
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