Aaron Sims | In short film Archetype a combat robot rebels after malfunctioning with memories of once being human
February 19, 2012
Aaron Sims | RL7 is an eight-foot-tall combat robot that goes on the run after malfunctioning with vivid memories of once being human. As its creators and the military close in, RL7 battles its way to uncovering the shocking truth behind its mysterious visions and past.
Directed by Aaron Sims and starring Robert Joy (Land of the Dead, CSI:NY) and David Anders (Heroes, 24).
“Thanks for all the positive feedback everyone! This has been a labor of love on a budget of $0, with personal expense on my part and no funding. It makes it all worthwhile when we see other people responding to it. Thank you!” — Aaron Sims
The Aaron Sims Company | Aaron Sims is a prominent creature/conceptual designer who has worked with visionary directors such as Steven Spielberg, Zack Snyder & Martin Campbell on such projects as War of the Worlds, Sucker Punch, Green Lantern, and many others.
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Comments (20)
by Spike
Looks like excellent F/X wrapped around a silly, cliche sci-fi story, full of Hollywood absurdities. “Oh! Oh! If I die in the VR environment/cyberspace, I’ll (die|go crazy|be stuck there)!” My god I’m tired of that. And it adds nothing to this trailer. Actually, combat robots would be built and maintained by engineers, not scientists. An engineer would watch the virtual RL7 try to kill his virtual projection, pop out of cyberspace, and say “Damn, we have a problem here. Pull up this guy’s diagnostic logs.” He wouldn’t be panicked or scared, because *dying in a computer doesn’t hurt you.* And a movie (the 100th at least) that assumes otherwise just lets all your digitally literate viewers know you’re a n00b.
by Mr. Kirk
Took me a few months but I eventually got around to watching this masterpiece. Love it. Shared it. Hoping for a full-length movie.
by Ron Smith
Robo Cop
by Jason
More of this please. I love science ficion, but generally hold my breath when going to see Hollywood efforts. You fluency with the genre and the tools of cinema and special effect give me hope that more of what I love about written science fiction will eventually find its way into new formats.
by Chris DeJager
Nice production. Take a look at Turing Evolved and Military Diorama.
by sblack
Do you have links for those?
by bondo
we want more. and no budget. V well done Aaron!!
by Don Price
Thank you for sharing! I’d love to see this project parlayed into a full-feature film. Job well done!!
by Bux
It’s a carbon copy of Robocop, and people here want also make it a carbon copy of Matrix.
by George Lees Jr.
yeah it looks the ishh !
by Taddesse
Awesome stuff
by sblack
Awesome.
by kg
dude wow wow wow graphics phat hot, the concept is in accordance with
the possibilities of singularity and other options not yet anticipated or understood. i will be looking foe the movie or what ever else is done in association with the concept or if you come up with something better. please develop more the script is compelling. did i say i liked it? ok enough already great job
by Meg Stroh
It’s terrific. I was completely absorbed. It’s the type of file I would not normally see. Perfect characterisation.
by Anon
This is simply amazing! The concept is reborn and none of the cliche is left behind. For a trailer this was the most emotional 6 odd minutes ever! So much power displayed in all the characters. Just incredible. Please, someone give this man $20 million and see what he can do!
by codesimian
In the full length film, it could go matrix style where all Humans turn out to be robots like RL7 except we’ve been programmed to think eachother look like Humans as our society continues out of control toward mass producing such robots, like DARPA does. This could get even deeper if some of us in this matrix-like simulation think we’re robots like RL7, so it would be a simulation in a simulation… I think the point of the movie is to confuse our certainty of what we really are, so a good way to extend it would be to confuse us about how many levels deep of memories and/or simulations we’re in.
by Barney
PLEASE make this is feature length film. Looks SO cool. Great ideas with the HUD camera, R7 design looked awesome, and it just has SO MUCH potential.
by Stacy
This HAS to become a full length film post-haste!
by Thomas Jensen
Way, waay too short!
by chuck u farley
super good!