Shailene Woodley to hunt robot Shailene Woodley in new comedy from Borat writer Anthony Hines
Jack Whitehall will also be hunting a robot version of himself
Sometimes it seems like every kind of story has already been told, and today is one of those days: Courtesy of a press release, we’ve got news of yet another entry in the tried and true genre of “a womanizer and a gold digger have to team up to chase their robot duplicates, who have fallen in love and run away together.” Hey, stop us if you’ve heard this one before! Har har. No, just kidding, this plot sounds wild, and it comes courtesy of Borat and Subsequent Moviefilm writer Anthony Hines. The project is called Robots, and production company Rocket Science announced today that it’s going to star Shailene Woodley and Jack Whitehall as the gold digger and womanizer (respectively, we assume). Here’s the official pitch, courtesy of Rocket Science: