Spyglass Media Group is currently working on Radio Silence’s Scream 5. And today we hear they will also produce a remake of the ’80s sci-fi kid classic Short Circuit.

In other scifi news Johnny 5 is still alive and will never die. Short Circuit writers and Stampede team members S.S. Wilson and Brent Maddock are still reworking their original 1986 screenplay to ...

Online communities around “Short Circuit” are still thriving today. One Facebook group — Johnny 5 Replica Builders & Fans — has close to 23,000 members.

In 1987 Richard Bates watched "Short Circuit" for the first of "a thousand times." Now he owns the house and rents it out as an Airbnb property. #k5evening ...