Steven Spielberg from our 1999 photo morgue

Steven Spielberg will again be lording over evil machines when he tackles Robopocalypse, unnamed ghostly sources say (actually Deadline).

The tongue-twisted-named movie is the usual robot version of Spartacus, with the mistreated A.I.s rebelling against the IRS (more likely humans in general).  It’s reportedly based on a soon-to-be published book How to Build a Robot Army.

The yearn goes that DreamWorks got the novel in galley pieces and just storyboarded it on a wall.  They’re apparently settled on the Robopocalypse name, not to be confused with (or maybe intentionally piggy-backing) the Nintendo real-time strategy video game, Robocalypse.

Before Robowhatever finishes, Spielberg’s The Adventures of Titin: The Secret of the Unicorn and War Horse will be in theaters.

Like the DreamWorks pre-production storyboard, this blurb is coming in pieces hot over the short wave, so more information will be forthcoming with each new scoop.

I know, but it’s nearly six on Friday and the only real news is politics.