Lawrence Turman helped produce this film based on a military robot who is struck by lightning and gains human like intelligence
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Lawrence Turman Lawrence Turman (born November 28, 1926 in Los Angeles) is a film producer who currently serves as the director of The Peter Stark Producing Program at the University of Southern California. He was nominated for an Academy Award for "The Graduate" (1967). He has also produced such films such as "Pretty Poison" (1968), "The Great White Hope" (1970), "The Thing" (1982), "Mass Appeal" (1984), "Short Circuit" (1986), "The River Wild" (1994), and "American History X" (1998).
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Short Circuit (1986 film) Short Circuit is a 1986 American comic science fiction film directed by John Badham and written by S. S. Wilson and Brent Maddock. The film's plot centers upon an experimental military robot that is struck by lightning and gains a more humanlike intelligence, with which it embarks to explore its new state. "Short Circuit" stars Ally Sheedy, Steve Guttenberg, Fisher Stevens, Austin Pendleton and G. W. Bailey, with Tim Blaney as the voice of the robot named "Johnny 5". A sequel, "Short Circuit 2", was released in 1988.
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Juan Rico Juan "Johnny" Rico is a fictional character and the protagonist of Robert A. Heinlein's 1959 military science fiction novel "Starship Troopers". Rico is a space marine in the fictional "Mobile Infantry", an army group which is airdropped into combat by "dropships". He also appears in the 1988 "Starship Troopers" OVA series, the 1997, , and installments of the film series and the 1999 television series "".
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Struck by Lightning (2012 film) Struck by Lightning is a 2012 coming-of-age comedy-drama film written by and starring Chris Colfer, also based on his novel, and directed by Brian Dannelly.
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Royal Flash (film) Royal Flash is a 1975 film based on George MacDonald Fraser's second Flashman novel, "Royal Flash". It stars Malcolm McDowell as Flashman. Additionally, Oliver Reed appeared in the role of Otto von Bismarck, Alan Bates as Rudi von Sternberg, and Florinda Bolkan played Lola Montez. Fraser wrote the screenplay and the film was directed by Richard Lester.
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FEDOR (armed AI bot) FEDOR or Feodor (Russian: Фёдор ) the abbreviation for "final experimental demonstration object research" is the name of a Russian humanoid is training for keeping balanced during auto-pilot shooting concurrently by two hands. Dmitry Rogozin the Deputy of Russian Prime Minister insisted they are not creating Terminator, and this AI Robot creation was originally started for rescue missions, and training for shooting by gun is to improve the decision-making and motor skill abilities.Based on reports Putin has ordered his Space commanders, up to next 15 years, to reach landing on the moon for the first time by Russia. It is said the FEDOR is designed to make "colonies" on moon and is getting ready to have a solo space mission in 2021.
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Steve Austin (character) Steve Austin is a science fiction character created by Martin Caidin for his 1972 novel, "Cyborg". The lead character, Colonel Steve Austin, became an iconic 1970s television science fiction action hero, portrayed by American actor Lee Majors, in American television series "The Six Million Dollar Man", which aired on the ABC network as a regular series for five seasons from 1974 to 1978. In the television series, Steve Austin takes on special high-risk government missions using his superhuman bionic powers. The television character Steve Austin became a pop culture icon of the 1970s.
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Robots (2005 film) Robots is a 2005 American computer-animated adventure comedy film produced by Blue Sky Studios for 20th Century Fox. It was directed by Chris Wedge and produced by Jerry Davis, William Joyce, and John C. Donkin. It features the voices of Ewan McGregor, Halle Berry, Greg Kinnear, Mel Brooks, Amanda Bynes, Drew Carey, and Robin Williams.
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Struck by Lightning (1990 film) Struck by Lightning is a 1990 Australian film directed by Jerzy Domaradzki. The film was nominated in 4 AFI Award categories, including Best Director and Best Film. It won the film award at the Human Rights Medal and Awards in 1990.
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The Andromeda Strain (film) The Andromeda Strain is a 1971 American science fiction film produced and directed by Robert Wise. Based on Michael Crichton's 1969 novel of the same name and adapted by Nelson Gidding, the film stars Arthur Hill, James Olson, Kate Reid, and David Wayne as a team of scientists who investigate a deadly organism of extraterrestrial origin. With a few exceptions, the film follows the book closely. The special effects were designed by Douglas Trumbull. The film is notable for its use of split screen in certain scenes.
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Robot series (Asimov) The "Robot" series is a series of 38 short stories and 5 novels by science fiction author Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) featuring positronic robots.
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G.I. Joe (film series) G.I. Joe is a military science fiction action film series, based on Hasbro's G.I. Joe toy, comic and media franchises. Development for the first film began in 2003, but when the United States launched the invasion of Iraq in March 2003, Hasbro suggested adapting the "Transformers" instead. In 2009, the first film was released under the title, "". A second film, "" was released in 2013. A third film in the series has been confirmed to be in early development, while a possible crossover with the "Transformers" franchise is being considered.
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The Tesla World Light The Tesla World Light (French: Tesla : lumière mondiale) is an 8-minute 2017 black and white avant-garde film by Montreal director Matthew Rankin imagining the latter days of inventor Nikola Tesla in 1905 in New York City. Rankin has stated that he was interested in exploring Tesla's optimistic utopian vision. The film touches on Tesla's troubled relationship with his former benefactor, J.P. Morgan, depicting Tesla on his deathbed, pleading with Morgan for another loan. Rankin has stated that "everything in the film is drawn from something [Tesla] wrote or said." The film uses excerpts of Tesla’s actual letters to Morgan, which the filmmaker found in the Library of Congress; even a reference to Tesla falling in love with an "electric pigeon" was based on an interview with Tesla, according to Rankin. The film is produced by Julie Roy for the National Film Board of Canada.
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The Fighting Devil Dogs The Fighting Devil Dogs (1938) is a 12-chapter Republic movie serial starring Lee Powell and Herman Brix, the latter better known by his later stage name, Bruce Bennett. It was directed by William Witney and John English. While not often considered one of the best serials ever made, as it contains a lot of stock footage and two recap chapters, it is famous for its main villain, The Lightning—the very first costumed supervillain. There is some speculation that George Lucas used The Lightning as a template for Darth Vader.
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Lightning McQueen Lightning McQueen, typically referred to by his surname McQueen, is an anthropomorphic stock car in the animated Pixar film "Cars" (2006), its sequels "Cars 2" (2011), "Cars 3" (2017), and TV shorts known as "Cars Toons." The character is not named after actor and race driver Steve McQueen, but actually Pixar animator Glenn McQueen, who died in 2002. His design is inspired by a stock car and "a more curvaceous Le Mans endurance racer," with "some Lola and some Ford GT40." During the scene where he helps restore Radiator Springs to its 1950s heyday, he is painted much like a 1950's Chevrolet Corvette C1, once again hinting at his Corvette lineage. His number was originally set to be 57, Lasseter's birth year, but was changed to 95, the release year of Pixar's first film "Toy Story".
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Heavy Metal (film) Heavy Metal is a 1981 Canadian-American adult animated sci-fi-fantasy film directed by Gerald Potterton and produced by Ivan Reitman and Leonard Mogel, who also was the publisher of "Heavy Metal" magazine, the basis for the film. The screenplay was written by Daniel Goldberg and Len Blum.
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The Delta Force The Delta Force is a 1986 Israeli-American action–thriller starring Chuck Norris and Lee Marvin (in his final film appearance) as leaders of an elite squad of Special Forces troops based on the real life U.S. Army Delta Force unit. It was directed by Menahem Golan and featured Martin Balsam, Joey Bishop, Robert Vaughn, Steve James, Robert Forster, Shelley Winters, George Kennedy, and an uncredited Liam Neeson in an early role. The film was produced in Israel. Two sequels were produced entitled "" and the direct-to-video "". "The Delta Force" was "inspired by" the hijacking of TWA Flight 847.
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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is a 1982 American science fiction fantasy film co-produced and directed by Steven Spielberg, and written by Melissa Mathison. It features special effects by Carlo Rambaldi and Dennis Muren, and stars Henry Thomas, Dee Wallace, Robert MacNaughton, Drew Barrymore, Peter Coyote and Pat Welsh. It tells the story of Elliott (Thomas), a lonely boy who befriends an extraterrestrial, dubbed "E.T.", who is stranded on Earth. Elliott and his siblings help E.T. return home while attempting to keep him hidden from their mother and the government.
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The Human Bullet The Human Bullet (肉弾 , Nikudan ) is a 1968 Japanese film about Him (played by Minori Terada), a Japanese soldier during World War II who becomes assigned to a kamikaze mission against a U.S. battleship. It is an anti-war satire written and directed by Kihachi Okamoto.
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Robot Detective Robot Detective (ロボット刑事 , Robotto Keiji ) is a tokusatsu superhero TV series. Created by Shotaro Ishinomori, the series was produced by Toei Company Ltd., and broadcast on Fuji TV from April 5 to September 27, 1973, with a total of 26 episodes.
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List of Linebarrels of Iron episodes "Linebarrels of Iron" is an anime series adapted from the manga of the same title by Eiichi Shimizu and Tomohiro Shimoguchi. Directed by Masamitsu Hidaka and produced by Gonzo, the season was broadcast on the Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS) from October 3, 2008 to March 20, 2009. The story centers around Kouichi Hayase, a fourteen-year-old boy living a mediocre life until an accident turns him into the pilot of a gigantic robot called "Linebarrel", as well as lead him to encounter a mysterious girl named Emi Kizaki.
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Astro Boy (1963 TV series) Astro Boy (Japanese: 鉄腕アトム , Hepburn: Tetsuwan Atomu , "Mighty Atom", lit. "Iron Arm Atom") is a Japanese television series that premiered on Fuji TV on New Year's Day and is the first popular animated Japanese television series that embodied the aesthetic that later became familiar worldwide as "anime". It originated as a manga of the same name in 1952 by Osamu Tezuka, revered in Japan as the "God of Manga." After enjoying success both in Japan and abroad as the first anime to be broadcast overseas, "Astro Boy" was remade in the 1980s under the same name(s), and in 2003 as "Astro Boy: Mighty Atom". It lasted for four seasons, with a total of 193 episodes, the final episode presented on New Year's Eve 1966. At its height it was watched by 40% of the Japanese population who had access to a TV. In 1964, there was a feature-length animated movie called "Mighty Atom, the Brave in Space" (鉄腕アトム 宇宙の勇者 , Tetsuwan Atomu: Uchū no yūsha ) released in Japan. It was an anthology of three episodes; "The Robot Spaceship", "Last Day on Earth" and "Earth Defense Squadron". The latter two were filmed in color.