Unless it is a documentary, something so on the nose probably won’t get made any time soon. Fortunately this exact film was already made 56 years ago.
Colossus: The Forbin Project was released in 1970. It was adapted from a 1966 novel by British sci-fi author D.F. Jones named simply, Colossus.
While the film seems to be well appreciated, with respectable scores on sites like Rotten Tomatoes and Letterboxd, it is certainly not well known and could probably be described as obscure, I can’t ever remember seeing it on TV or being discussed alongside the more famous films of the time.
This is a shame, because C:TFP is a solid, paranoid drama touching on techno fetishism and the tensions of the cold war. It features fantastic production design in the cassette futurism aesthetic and might well turn out to be the most prophetic film ever made.
