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{{Short description|1970 film by Joseph Sargent}}
{{Use American English|date=January 2025}}
{{Infobox film
| name           = Colossus: The Forbin Project
| image          = Colossus_the_forbin_project_movie_poster.jpg
| alt            = 
| caption        = Theatrical release poster
| director       = [[Joseph Sargent]]
| producer       = Stanley Chase
| screenplay     = [[James Bridges]]
| based_on       = {{based on|''[[Colossus (novel)|Colossus]]''|[[Dennis Feltham Jones]]}}
| starring       = {{plainlist|
* [[Eric Braeden]]
* [[Susan Clark]]
* [[Gordon Pinsent]]
* [[William Schallert]]
* [[Marion Ross]]
}}
| music          = [[Michel Colombier]]
| cinematography = [[Gene Polito]]
| editing        = Folmar Blangsted
| color_process  = [[Technicolor]]
| studio         = Universal Pictures
| distributor    = [[Universal Pictures]]
| released       = {{Film date|1970|4|4|Premiere|1970|5|4|New York City}}
| runtime        = 100 minutes
| country        = United States
| language       = English
| budget         = $2 million<ref name=preem>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=May 6, 1970|page=17|title=Computer-as-Dictator Beats Sabotage; Universal Sales Slant: 'Science-Fact'|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_variety_1970-05-06_258_12/page/16/mode/2up?view=theater|access-date=March 31, 2024|via=[[Internet Archive]]}}</ref>
| gross          = $308,828<ref name=gross/>
}}
'''''Colossus: The Forbin Project''''' (originally released as '''''The Forbin Project''''')  is a 1970 American [[science-fiction]] [[thriller film]] from [[Universal Pictures]], produced by Stanley Chase, directed by [[Joseph Sargent]], that stars [[Eric Braeden]], [[Susan Clark]], [[Gordon Pinsent]], and [[William Schallert]]. It is based upon the 1966 science-fiction novel ''[[Colossus (novel)|Colossus]]'' by [[Dennis Feltham Jones]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://www.amazon.com/Colossus-Novel-Tomorrow-Could-Happen/dp/B004V7DZ0U/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=|title=Colossus: A Novel of Tomorrow That Could Happen Today|first=D. F.|last=Jones|author-link=Dennis Feltham Jones|publisher=[[G. P. Putnam's Sons]]|location=[[New York City]]|year=1966|asin=B004V7DZ0U}}</ref>

The film is about an advanced American defense system, named Colossus, becoming sentient. After being handed full control, Colossus' draconian logic expands on its original nuclear defense directives to [[AI takeover|assume total control of the world]] and end all warfare for the good of humankind, despite its creators' orders to stop.<ref name="Colossus: The Forbin Project">{{cite web|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/71253/the-forbin-project#credits|title=Colossus: The Forbin Project|work=[[Turner Classic Movies]]|publisher=[[Turner Broadcasting System]] ([[Time Warner]])|location=[[Atlanta]]|access-date=June 4, 2017}}</ref>
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