Roland Emmerich puts SINGULARITY on hold to focus on script

Roland Emmerich has decided to stop pre-production on Singularity. Deadline reports that the $175 million sci-fi thriller was put on hold so that Emmmerich could focus on the script. The film was to begin shooting in Montreal next March 2012, and Emmerich was scheduled to read with actors this week so the production could meet it's May 2013 release. Those plans has been put on hold since Emmerich is unhappy with the screenplay. 

The story focuses on "a young man whose body is made up a swarm of nanobots, giving him all sorts of powers at the same time as it brings unwanted attention from an evil corporation." Emmerich has no one to blame but himself, since he wrote the script with frequent collaborator Harald Kloser. The plan is to bring in a futurist and AI specialist Ray Kurzweil to work with Emmerich.

Singularity is "a term used by technologists to signify the emergence of a super-intelligence that would overtake human intelligence." The sources close to the project say this is not as a result of budgetary concerns or because Anonymous performed poorly (the $30 million feature has only taken in $3.2 million worldwide since it’s October opening).

This movie sounds cool and I think it is a great idea to put it on hold to work out scripting issues. A film like this has to have a certain level of reality mixed in with the science to make it believable. What are your thoughts on this news?