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Edgar Wright to direct robot love story, Set My Heart To Five

By David Harris (Razor)

LONDON, ENGLAND - JANUARY 12: Jessica Hynes and Edgar Wright attend the "Spaced" 21st Anniversary at BFI Southbank on January 12, 2020 in London, England. (Photo by Joe Maher/Getty Images)
LONDON, ENGLAND - JANUARY 12: Jessica Hynes and Edgar Wright attend the "Spaced" 21st Anniversary at BFI Southbank on January 12, 2020 in London, England. (Photo by Joe Maher/Getty Images) /
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Director Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Baby Driver) will adapt an upcoming science fiction novel from author Simon Stephenson called Set My Heart to Five, per The Hollywood Reporter. The story follows a robot dentist named Jared in the year 2054 who loves watching 80s and 90s romantic movies. He goes on a trek to find the scientist who created him and write a film script that will “change the world” and convince the mean humans to give him and all of robot-kind the ability to feel.

Sounds pretty Edgar Wright to me.

Set My Heart To Five kind of sounds like Westworld minus the murderous robots and timeline jumps, plus some romantic comedy and a bit of Ready Player One. And Jared reminds me of the android Data from Star Trek, whose story was recently finished in the first season of Star Trek: Picard.

Anyway, Wright is currently working on finishing up his latest flick, Last Night in Soho, a psychological horror story. After that, it’s speed ahead to robot destist quest movie, with an adapted screenplay by Stephenson himself.

As for the book itself, it’ll come on on May 28.

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