The '80s sci-fi movie Short Circuit is being rebooted as a Latinx family film from one of the filmmakers behind Instructions Not Included.

The '80s sci-fi movie Short Circuit is being rebooted as a Latinx family film from one of the filmmakers behind Instructions Not Included.

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.

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.

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 ...

Before there was Wall-E, before Star Trek's Commander Data, there was Johnny Five: the sentient robot starring alongside Ally Sheedy and Steve Gutenberg in Short Circuit, a family-friendly film from ...

Looks like Number 5 is still alive! Time to add Short Circuit to the list of '80s sci-fi classics getting a big screen reboot.

A replica of the robot from the Short Circuit films has gone trick or treating for Halloween - dressed as a ghost.

A film-fanatic spent six years building a fully-functioning replica of movie robot Johnny 5 from Short Circuit – even moving home to accommodate the creation.

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 ...

Short Circuit Review Number 5, a rogue robot on the run from the law and various scientists, finds sanctuary with the angelic Stephanie Speck (Sheedy) and the goodie-goodie Newton Crosby (Guttenberg).