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| Eve VIII | |
| Designation: | Eve VIII |
| Type: | Robot |
| Series: | Eve |
| Model: | VIII |
| Gender: | Female |
| Status: | Destroyed |
| First: | Eve of Destruction (1991) |
| Actor: | Renée Soutendijk |
Eve VIII is a fictional gynoid featured in the 1991 "killer robot" movie Eve of Destruction, directed by Duncan Gibbins. She was played by Dutch actress Renée Soutendijk.
Overview[]
A scientist named Doctor Eve Simmons created an advanced gynoid for the military in her own image called Eve VIII, which she claimed possesses all of the passion that she herself lacked. More notable however, was the fact that the android housed a nuclear bomb. As with most such cases, technology ran amok and the Eve VIII found herself in the midst of a bank robbery where her handler/observer was killed and she was shot by a shotgun, disabling her tracker and activated Battlefield Mode, her highest level of combat readiness, enabling an internal nuclear explosive and prioritizing eliminating all terminal threats- even if doing so means disobeying sunsequrmt orders and costing the lives of everyone else around her. As a side effect of using Doctor Simmons as her mental, emotional, and psychogical template, she begins acting out several of Dr Simmons' suppressed and darker side during her programmed mission. General Curtis and Bill Schneider enlisted the aid of counterinsurgency specialist Colonel Jim
McQuade to track her down and destroy her. [1]
Biography[]
Notes & Trivia[]
- The character of Eve VIII was created by director/writer Duncan Gibbins and screenwriter Yale Udoff.
- Actress Renée Soutendijk played the dual roles of Eve VIII and Eve Simmons.
- This is Renée Soutendijk's first work in an American science fiction film.
- As she is designated Eve VIII, it stands to reason that there were seven previous models that did not progress to field testing.