COLOSSUS: THE FORBIN PROJECT

COLOSSUS: THE FORBIN PROJECT (variously punctuated; UK vt THE FORBIN PROJECT). Joseph Sargent, dir. USA: Universal, 1969 (completion), 1970 (US release). Walt Lee lists additional vts for this film before and during its production.

Computer takeover film. Closely follows the novel Colossus by D. F. Jones (q.v. under Fiction); changes are minor, necessary, and usually improvements. Discussed by V. Sobchack in The Limits of Infinity/Screening Space. Discussed in TMG by D. Palumbo and in CW by L. Heldreth (see under Drama Criticism). See in this Wiki Jennifer Welchman's "COLOSSUS: THE FORBIN PROJECT: Evolution and Artificial Intelligence"