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Some may recall that sixteen years ago, Steven Spielberg signed on to direct a film adaptation of the sci-fi novel "Robopocalypse." Anne Hathaway, Ben Whishaw, and Chris Hemsworth were set to star in the project. Originally slated to begin production in summer 2012 for an April 2014 release, the film was indefinitely postponed in early 2013. While Michael Bay was rumored to take over directing in 2018, that iteration also never materialized.
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When the project was first shelved, Spielberg's spokesperson acknowledged its high cost, estimated at $200 million, making fundraising a challenge for Spielberg's production company, DreamWorks. In a recent interview with Total Film magazine, Spielberg shed light on why the film ultimately stalled.
Spielberg stated: "That movie was going to be too big. It was going to be big enough to bankrupt a studio. It would have put a whole studio out of business. It would never have recouped its cost. So I decided that was going to be the most expensive movie I ever directed, and I wasn't ready to take on that responsibility. My company, DreamWorks, invested in all my movies, but I didn't want to include this one as an investment for my own company because it was simply too expensive for us to produce. So I took the project to other companies. I didn't want to pay for it myself, but other companies were interested in funding it, provided I directed. But I also didn't want to disappoint anyone, because I couldn't guarantee that audiences would actually like it."
via： Total Film