ALL SCI-FI

[Bud Brewster]

Here's how Looper describes this movie.
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Ron's Gone Wrong is a family film about a malfunctioning robot

Remember the Tamagotchi craze?

Ron's Gone Wrong takes place in a world similarly besotted with artificially intelligent companions ... only these robots aren't confined to monochromatic pixels on a two-inch screen.

No, the kids in this world are accompanied everywhere they go by walking, talking, perpetually online robots. They're enormously sophisticated and absolutely omnipresent. But Ron's Gone Wrong isn't about these robots' dazzling features. Rather, Ron's Gone Wrong tells the story of an 11-year-old boy whose robotic pal doesn't quite work.

Ron's Gone Wrong has had a long road to production. Originally announced by 20th Century Fox and Locksmith Animation back in 2017, the movie was reshuffled repeatedly after Disney acquired Fox in 2019, then delayed again by COVID-19.

If the film's crew is anything to go by, however, Ron's Gone Wrong will be worth the wait. The movie will be co-directed by Jean-Philippe Vine, who worked on Inside Out and The Good Dinosaur, and Octavio Rodriguez, who boasts similar Pixar experience on Incredibles 2, Coco, and Monsters University, in addition to working as a storyboard artist on iconic SpongeBob SquarePants episodes including "Squidville" and "Texas."

Plus, Jack Dylan Grazer of It and Shazam! fame will be starring. As an all-ages film, Ron's Gone Wrong is unique among upcoming sci-fi stories and all the more poised to make a major cultural impact.
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)