[General Woundwort]

I did a little data mining, and it appears that the movie's connection with the actual story anthology "I Robot" is just with the title alone...

The movie is not out yet so the IMDB entry is not based on the credits as they appear in the movie. IMDB information is often submitted in an unofficial way and is therefore subject to errors. Nowhere on IMDB does it claim that this movie is "based on" the book of short stories by Asimov. In fact the official movie site (http://www.irobotmovie.com/) only says that the movie is "suggested by" Asimov's short story collection. This, in my opinion, is a far cry from a claim that this is based on the short story collection.

Further, I've followed the development of this film for years at sites such as http://www.darkhorizons.com/2004/irobot.php which prints movie news and rumors (and clearly distinguishes between the two). As stated elsewhere in this thread, this movie was already well under development when the decision was made to buy the rights to "I, Robot" in order to use the title and a few assorted plot elements (but not the plots) from the stories therein.

http://www.talkaboutabook.com/group/...ges/31557.html

IOW, they just hijacked the title to add credibility to their crud. [Pun intended]