Nearly ten years in the past, Mr. Robotic creator Sam Esmail started work on a ardour challenge of his. Carry Fritz Lang’s 1927 sci-fi masterpiece, Metropolis, again to life as a long-form tv sequence. It was a dream that was very near turning into a actuality with Apple TV+ on the point of begin manufacturing later this yr. Nonetheless, as a result of author’s strike, the challenge has been completely shut down.

Deadline reported the information, which was confirmed by the present’s manufacturing firm, Common Content material Productions. “Push prices and uncertainty associated to the continued strike led to this tough determination,” a consultant for UCP instructed the commerce. This principally means the firm was paying individuals to not work because it waited for the strike to finish however will now not be doing that. Scripts weren’t full when the strike began final month and so many departments have been ready in Australia as manufacturing was supposed to begin this summer season.

Metropolis was first introduced approach again in 2016 however, on the time, Esmail nonetheless had two seasons of Mr. Robotic to complete. Right here’s the way it was described then:

Like the unique movie, the small-screen adaptation will happen in a future society the place rich industrialists rule the huge metropolis from high-rise tower complexes, whereas a decrease class of underground-dwelling employees toil continually to function the machines that present its energy. Risking every little thing they know, two star-crossed lovers from reverse sides of the divide should discover a strategy to deliver down the entire system.

And now, effectively, a system did get introduced down. Solely it was the one we have been hoping to see delivered to life on Apple TV+.

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