Dave McNary Film ReporterSpyglass Media Group is developing a Latinx remake of the 1986 sci-fi comedy “Short Circuit.”The original “Short Circuit,” starring Ally Sheedy, Steve Guttenberg and Fisher Stevens, sees the military develop prototype robots called S.A.I.N.T. (Strategic Artificially Intelligent Nuclear Transport) and one of the units is struck by lightning, which makes it sentient.
The robot escapes and is found by Sheedy’s Stephanie Speck, an animal care-giver, who mistakes him for an alien.The company has hired the writing team of Eduardo Cisneros and Jason Shuman to bring Latinx elements into the project.
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