OT Aye, Carumba! I, Robot.

[dogscoff]

OK, so Hollywood is making a sfx-fest film out of one or many of Asimov's robot stories. www.irobotmovie.com but I can't be bothered to look up any info on it myself, so I'm asking you lot.

-Which story or stories is it based on?
-Will Will Smith be playing Elijah Bailey?
-Have they butchered Asimov's story beyond all recognition? (I'm thinking yes, but I'm trying to remain open-minded)
-Will they attempt to make it all contemporary, or will they remain true to the 50s/ 60s based science and culture in the books? I'm longing to see a modern-day film made true to the retro-science of the era in which the story was written. The closest we have in the 1980s Version of Flash Gordon...
-Will it be part of a greater continuity of films based around the rest of Asimov's three-laws books?
-Will anyone here bother to see it, or should we all just hate it from afar?
-Does it have anything to do with that AI film that came out a few years ago and (I believe) was another hideous Hollywood Asimoff rip-ov.

[Katchoo]

I haven't read the book in years, but there's nothing in the Trailers for the Movie that I've seen that resemble any of the stories in the book. I think all they've done is taken the title and the premise that Robots aren't the perfect servants humanity was looking for.

[geoschmo]

I concur. From looking at the trailers the only similarities I see is the title and the three laws themselves.

[General Woundwort]

Yet another Hollywood hack job on a classic sci-fi story. Well, look on the bright side... it can't be as bad as Starship Troopers was, right?...

...who am I kidding.

[gregebowman]

Originally posted by General Woundwort:
Yet another Hollywood hack job on a classic sci-fi story. Well, look on the bright side... it can't be as bad as Starship Troopers was, right?...

...who am I kidding.

I didn't think Starship Troopers was all that bad of a movie, but it's probably been at least 25 years since I've read the original book, and it's still in storage at my mom's house. I wasn't going to buy another book when I already have one. So my memory has faded over what the book was about.

As far as I, Robot, I haven't seen the trailers yet. But considering the track record of Hollywood of making hack-jobs out of great sci-fi books lately, I fear for the worst. Maybe they will surprise us and it will turn out to be a great tribute to Asimov. I think this is the first time one of his books has been made into a movie. I'm suprised the Sci-Fi Channel hasn't made any Foundation movies and/or mini-series yet, like they're doing with Riverworld. It really can't be as bad as The Day After Tomorrow .

[Atrocities]

Battlefield Earth -ok books, horribe movie.