SINGULARITY (In Development)

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Roland Emmerich's participation in the game-to-filmadaptation of Asteroids, the disaster master has now officially bowed out ofthe project. He has instead decided to move forward on another sci-fi film,Singularity.

Roland Emmerich

"I was very honored that they wanted to have me as adirector," Emmerich said. "I kind of liked the script very much, butat that time I was writing with my writing partner Harold Kloser on a newscript called Singularity, and I opted for that."

Collider reports that Emmerich wants to take a slightlydifferent route with Singularity, noting that the disaster genre is starting tofeel a little played out. With this film, it's a completely new idea andsomething that he claims we've never seen before.

"It takes place in the future 40 years from now,"says Emmerich. "It's like kind of this moment where computer technology isso advanced that we kind of -- it's the danger of losing control."

Singularity is currently scheduled to begin filming inMarch.