Nick Statt is a Senior Producer on Decoder. Previously, he reported on the technology and gaming industries for more than a decade. Metropolis was, for its time, one of the most groundbreaking ...

At the root of it all is the likeness to the female robot, often called “Maria,” in Fritz Lang’s masterwork of futurism, Metropolis. Maria has inspired countless cultural references ...

Metropolis has been a passion project for Mr. Robot creator Esmail ... via Anonymous Content. Directed by Lang and written by Thea Von Harbou based on the latter’s 1925 novel, the original ...

Fritz Lang's 1927 sci-fi epic "Metropolis" regularly appears on lists ... who aims to build a robot duplicate of Maria. The ...

Adapted from the original novel by Thea von Harbou, the screenplay was co-written by her and Fritz Lang, who were married at the time. Brigitte Helm, Gustav Fröhlich, Alfred Abel, and Rudolf ...

Fritz Lang’s trailblazing sci-fi epic Metropolis, the final Sherlock Holmes stories (and the detective character himself), and musical compositions like “Puttin’ on the Ritz” and “My ...

The name of Kraftwerk’s classic 1978 album ‘Die Mensch-Maschine’, is taken from the Maschinenmensch robot of Lang’s film. “We are the band of Metropolis,” he continued. “We feel that our music is a ...

Sam Esmail, the celebrated auteur behind the cybersecurity drama Mr. Robot, is working to adapt the 1927 Fritz Lang film Metropolis as a miniseries, according to a report from The Hollywood Reporter.