J.J. Abrams producing period robot movie 'Boilerplate' (exclusive)

I’ve been a fan of the faux-historical Boilerplate website for many years, so I was very happy to see this news.

J.J. Abrams and his Bad Robot banner are tackling the tale of a robot set in the Victorian Age.
Paramount has picked up rights to “Boilerplate: History’s Mechanical Marvel,” a graphic novel-picture book hybrid by Paul Guinan and Anina Bennett, the creators of comic book series “Heartbreakers,” for an adaptation to be produced by Abrams and his banner.
“Boilerplate” purports to tell the story of the world’s first robot, who, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, fought alongside Teddy Roosevelt and Lawrence of Arabia, journeyed to the South Pole and was involved in the silent movie business before disappearing on the battlefields of World War I.–Hollywood Reporter