Dimension Films has tapped Dan Milano to script “Short Circuit,” the remake of the 1986 pic. The original was about an armed robot that acquired a personality after a lightning strike, and ...

But any Johnny 5 (the robot in 80s classic Short Circuit) fans may be horrified (or delighted) that the kinky machine is loosely based on the mechanical hero - and was built by the same designer.

MOVIE robot Johnny 5 is alive — and living in a granny annex. Fan Ryan Howard, 33, has spent £20,000 recreating the android from cult 1986 film Short Circuit. Now part of the family, the robot ...

The plot of Short Circuit sees an experimental military robot struck by lightning, when it gains human-like intelligence and escapes its facility to learn more about the world.

A film fanatic who has built a fully-functioning replica of the robot from the 1986 film Short Circuit said fans get emotional when they see his creation. Ryan Howard, 34, from Nottinghamshire ...

Cleveland natives Joe and Anthony Russo's latest film, starring Millie Bobby Brown, Chris Pratt and a cast of robots, premieres on Netflix on March 14.

A replica of the robot from the Short Circuit films has gone trick or treating for Halloween - dressed as a ghost. Johnny 5 brought smiles to children's faces as it rolled from door to door in ...

A film fanatic who has built a fully-functioning replica of the robot from the 1986 film Short Circuit said fans get emotional when they see his creation. Ryan Howard, 34, from Nottinghamshire ...

A replica of the robot from the Short Circuit films has gone trick or treating for Halloween - dressed as a ghost. Johnny 5 brought smiles to children's faces as it rolled from door to door in ...