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Elektroid CPU Master

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Elektroid CPU Master is the cyborg drone unit of the sentient energy being which invaded the Mir space station and was beamed down to the Russian research vessel, Akademik Vladislav Volkov in the film titles Virus (1999).

When a typhoon cripples their boat, the crew sails into the eye of the storm, where they discover a high-tech Russian communications and research vessel adrift. Only one Russian crew member is still alive, raving about "intelligent lightning." They soon discover that an alien life form has taken over the ship's computers and is churning out mechanical warriors. With their own boat destroyed, the crew must battle the creature as the ship reenters the storm.

Featuring:

  • Jamie Lee Curtis as Kelly "Kit" Foster
  • William Baldwin as Steve Baker
  • Donald Sutherland as Captain Robert Everton
  • Joanna Pacuła as Nadia Vinogradova
  • Marshall Bell as J.W. Woods Jr.
  • Sherman Augustus as Richie Mason
  • Cliff Curtis as Hiko
  • Julio Oscar Mechoso as "Squeaky"
  • Yuri Chervotin as Colonel Kominsky
  • Keith Flippen as Captain Lonya Rostov
  • Levan Uchaneishvili as Alexi Vinogradov

Appearance

Elektroid CPU Master is a combination of organic human parts, components of the ship's advanced robots as well as parts of the ship's master computer. The alien entity itself is in the form of sentient electrical energy. This drone master is the major controlling component of all the other drones in the movie. This unit has a head component, an abdomen component, two arm components atop a quad-pod leg component. It has a 'face' made up of servos, cameras, lights and organic tissue.

Powers and Abilities

Elektroid CPU Masters possess the following powers and abilities:

  • Extreme Alien Intelligence
  • Quest to rid planet of human 'Virus'
  • Mechanical Strength (can rip through metal bulkheads)
  • Precision Manipulation
  • Predatory Tracking and Pursuit of quarry
  • Strategic Planning and Execution
  • Absorption of human knowledge through electronic interface with ships computer
  • Understands human speech

Fate

Elektroid CPU Master perishes after Kelly Foster and Steve Baker use Richie's ejection seat to escape the ship. Richie had rigged a series of grenades to a missile bomb which exploded when the ejection seat was launched. The resulting explosion sinks the ship into the ocean, grounding out the electrical alien entity.

Trivia

  • This Elektroid CPU Master model was named 'Goliath'. The "Goliath" robot was approximately 9' tall and weighed an estimated 4,000 lbs. The special effects company hired to create Goliath had only three-and-a-half months to produce the robot from the initial drawings to the finished product.
  • Director John Bruno is the visual effects artist.
  • The film uses a combination of CGI, miniatures and practical models/animatronics.
  • In 1999, French video game developer Cryo Interactive Entertainment released "Virus: It is Aware" on the PlayStation.
  • The ship used for this movie's setting was the ex-USAFS Hoyt S. Vandenberg.
  • Is very similar to the movie Moontrap (1989) with Bruce Campbell, but on a boat instead of a spaceship.
  • The miniature version of the Russian ship was a reworked model left over from the Abyss.
  • Actor Donald Sutherland spent six hours in the makeup chair in order to be transformed into "BioEverton". Sutherland wanted to film all of his scenes which required special makeup effects in one day so he would not have to go through the makeup application process again.
  • All the drones in the movies are component parts stemming from the alien sentient energy. So actually, all components are one.
  • Chuck Pfarrer initially wrote Virus as a screenplay and pitched it to Universal Pictures who rejected Pfarrer's pitch.
  • Mike Richardson of Dark Horse Comics agreed to publish Virus as a comic book miniseries, which was a great success with all four issues attaining sales of 100,000 copies per issue.
  • The ship used as the Akademik Vladislav Volkov was the retired Missile Range Instrumentation Ship USNS General Hoyt S. Vandenberg (T-AGM-10).
  • A line of action figures, the Virus Collector Series, was developed by ReSaurus to promote the film.
  • The original comics were re-released in graphic novel format with alternate cover artwork based on the film's climax.
  • A novelization written by author S.D. Perry was also published.

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