{"id":179731,"date":"2026-01-19T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/19\/steven-spielbergs-most-underrated-sci-fi-movie-almost-starred-an-actual-robot\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T14:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T19:45:09","slug":"steven-spielbergs-most-underrated-sci-fi-movie-almost-starred-an-actual-robot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/19\/steven-spielbergs-most-underrated-sci-fi-movie-almost-starred-an-actual-robot\/","title":{"rendered":"Steven Spielberg&#8217;s Most Underrated Sci-Fi Movie Almost Starred An Actual Robot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slashfilm.com\/2074045\/steven-spielberg-almost-starred-robot-sci-fi-movie-ai-artificial-intelligence\/\">Steven Spielberg&#8217;s Most Underrated Sci-Fi Movie Almost Starred An Actual Robot<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slashfilm.com\/2074045\/steven-spielberg-almost-starred-robot-sci-fi-movie-ai-artificial-intelligence\/\">https:\/\/www.slashfilm.com\/2074045\/steven-spielberg-almost-starred-robot-sci-fi-movie-ai-artificial-intelligence\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-19 14:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.slashfilm.com\">www.slashfilm.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;A.I. Artificial Intelligence&#8221; was originally a Stanley Kubrick project based on Brian Aldiss&#8217;s short story.<\/li>\n<li>Kubrick passed on the project to Steven Spielberg in the 1990s due to lack of interest.<\/li>\n<li>Spielberg revisited the project after Kubrick&#8217;s death, aiming to honor his colleague and master craftsman.<\/li>\n<li>Spielberg initially sought to use an animatronic robot for the role of David, but ultimately chose a human actor, Haley Joel Osment.<\/li>\n<li>Osment&#8217;s performance made the robot David appear emotional and tragic, fitting the movie&#8217;s theme.<\/li>\n<li>Stan Winston, known for his work on practical effects in &#8220;Jurassic Park,&#8221; created several practical robots for the film, notably the Teddy bear.<\/li>\n<li>Spielberg&#8217;s involvement with Kubrick&#8217;s project marked a shift towards a more serious and brooding aesthetic in his later works.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;A.I.&#8221; is seen as a departure from Spielberg&#8217;s earlier adventure films, exploring deeper themes of artificial creation and human understanding.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steven Spielberg&#8217;s Most Underrated Sci-Fi Movie Almost Starred An Actual Robot https:\/\/www.slashfilm.com\/2074045\/steven-spielberg-almost-starred-robot-sci-fi-movie-ai-artificial-intelligence\/ Publish Date: 2026-01-19&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":179732,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.slashfilm.com\/img\/gallery\/steven-spielbergs-most-underrated-sci-fi-movie-almost-starred-an-actual-robot\/l-intro-1768244880.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-179731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179731"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179733,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179731\/revisions\/179733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}