Roland Emmerich talks SINGULARITY and reveals he won't direct ASTEROIDS

Roland Emmerich recently spoke to Collider to talk about his next film Singularity and his rumored involvement in Asteroids, which he had to turn down.

Here is an excerpt of the interview:

Steve: You’ve been rumored to be attached to Asteroids. Are you doing that?

Emmerich: No.

Not at all?

Emmerich: Nope. I was very honored that they wanted to have me as a director, and I kind of liked the script very much, but at that time I was writing with my writing partner Harold Kloser a new script called Singularity and I opted for that.

I was gonna ask you about that. For fans of yours, can you tell us what that’s about and when you get started on it?

Emmerich: We already got started, so we’re in pre-production and we probably will shoot end of March as it looks right now, and it takes place in the future 40 years from now. It’s like kind of this moment where computer technology is so advanced that we kind of—It’s the danger of losing control.

Something about your movies that I love is that you’re always pushing the boundaries, you always have an effect that’s beyond what you’ve done before. What can fans of yours look forward to in Singularity?

Emmerich: Well Singularity is a totally different film. I just want to stay a little bit away from disaster because I kind of think I did it enough, and this is something where we’re creating something that I think people haven’t seen yet. But I have to be very careful what I say, because we have this new idea that we want to not kind of advertise everything. Films should have a certain mystery about them, and even for fans I think it’s cool to not know too much so there’s like this excitement and when you go into the theater there’s still something still to discover.

Pulling a Nolan.

Emmerich: (laughs) Exactly.

I can never get enough of sci-fi movies, so I am looking forward to Singularity, It makes complete sense that he turned down Asteroids. He has a firm grasp on disaster, but I would rather see someone elses take on that topic. Hearing Emmerich say that he has done enough disaster releated movies is refreshing. 

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