Anne Hathaway is set to star in Steven Spielberg’s Robopocalypse, an adaptation of Daniel H. Wilson’s novel about an artificial intelligence called Archos that takes control of all machines and Terminator Skynet 2001: Space Odyssey War Games I, Robot.

Hathaway tells Empire Online:

If Robopocalypse happens I will be in it, and I believe it’s quite real, though you never want to hang your hat on anything.

Unless its a hat rack. You can hang your hat on a hat rack.

Hathaway, who was handpicked by Spielberg to play the film’s female lead, joins a cast that includes Chris Hemsworth (Avengers), Ben Whishaw (Cloud Atlas) and possibly gorgeous Brit Gemma Arterton (Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters), who is currently in negotiations.

Hathaway’s genre creds are limited to the TriStar supernatural thriller Passengers, Tim Burton’s horrible Alice in Wonderland and Chris Nolan’s surprisingly disappointing The Dark Knight Rises.