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R.U.R. (film)
''R.U.R.'' (''Rossum's Universal Robots'') is an upcoming science fiction Musical film, musical film written and directed by Alex Proyas and based on the 1920 Czech R.U.R., play of the same name by Karel Čapek. The film stars Sammy Allsop, Lindsay Farris, Anthony LaPaglia, Mallory Jansen and Richard Roxburgh. Premise The film follows a young woman, Helena, who arrives at the island factory of Rossum's Universal Robots. Helena plots to give the robots souls and emancipate them from capitalist exploitation, a decision that quickly leads to unintended destruction. Cast * Mallory Jansen as Helena Glory * Lindsay Farris as Harry Doman * Anthony LaPaglia * Richard Roxburgh * Goran D. Kleut as The Rossom Twins * Nicholas Brown (actor), Nicholas Brown as Doctor Gall * Brenden Lovett as General Alquist * CJ Bloomfield as Primus * Brian Lipson as Dr Hallemeier * Lauren Grimson as Amelia * Sammy Allsop as Helena Glory Production Development Alex Proyas announced that he had wr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Proyas
Alexander Proyas ( ; born 23 September 1963) is an Australian film director. He is known for directing the films ''The Crow (1994 film), The Crow'' (1994), ''Dark City (1998 film), Dark City'' (1998), ''I, Robot (film), I, Robot'' (2004) and ''Knowing (film), Knowing'' (2009). Early life Alexander Proyas was born in Alexandria (then in the United Arab Republic and now in Egypt) on 23 September 1963, the son of a Greek Cypriot mother and a father from Egypt whose Greek ancestors had moved to Egypt many generations ago. When he was three years old, the family moved to Australia, where he grew up in the Sydney suburb of Waterloo, New South Wales, Waterloo. He grew up on a housing estate where the main tenants were fellow immigrants and Indigenous Australians, with whom he felt a kinship because they were all often subjected to racism by European Australians, white Australians. At age 17, he joined the Australian Film, Television and Radio School and began directing music videos s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |