Ready Player One screenwriter Zak Penn has signed up to adapt ROM: Spaceknight for Hasbro’s recently launched Allspark Pictures and Paramount. The news comes just a couple of months after a pair of screenwriters once assigned to the Hasbro writers’ room said it was unlikely a ROM movie would ever happen. Apparently, Hasbro had other ideas.
Hasbro’s ROM began life as a simplistic old-school toy robot named COBOL after the programming language. The character later underwent a name change after a sale to board game manufacturers Parker Brothers, who subsequently licensed the character to Marvel to create a comic book. At Marvel, ROM became re-imagined as ROM: Spaceknight, a cyborg strikingly similar in design to a Transformer. ROM received a whole backstory where ...
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