The Mitchells vs. The Machines

The Mitchells vs. the Machines is an upcoming American computer-animated science fiction comedy film produced by Sony Pictures Animation. The film is written and directed by Michael Rianda and Jeff Rowe and produced by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller. It is scheduled to be released by Sony Pictures Releasing under its Columbia Pictures label on September 18, 2020.

Plot
The Mitchell family's road trip gets interrupted by the sudden tech uprising. With the help of two robots, the Mitchells must survive the new and sudden dangers.

Production
Very little info about the film was released to the public until May 22, 2018, when Sony Pictures Animation announced the title of a Phil Lord and Christopher Miller-produced animated film that was in development, entitled The Mitchells vs. the Machines. The film is the duo's fourth collaboration with SPA after the Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs series and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, as well as the studio's first original feature film since The Star. Michael Rianda and Jeff Rowe, former writers of the Disney Channel animated series Gravity Falls, are writing and directing.

Further details were revealed a year later at the 2019 Annecy International Animated Film Festival that June, when Sony Animation president Kristine Belson revealed that the film would be using an art style similar to Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, and that the worlds the Mitchell family and the robots live in are initially separate universes before colliding. Animation work at Sony Pictures Imageworks had already begun the previous month, as confirmed by animator Nick Kondo on Twitter.

Release
The film is currently scheduled to be released on September 18, 2020.