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Asimov at the movies

Posted by Simon Richardson on 2002/12/05 11:10

"Dominic Thomas" wrote:

Apparently they're making a movie of Azimov's "I, Robot" starring Will
Smith.

See
http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=entertainmentNews&storyID=1847157
for slightly more information.

Dominic

Apart from the spelling of the man's name (well, hey) this fills me with
dread. That dread takes the form of a sour certainty that the story will
end with some robot breaking the rules.

The original Asimov stories didn't do this, of course. The main point
of Asimov's stories was to point up human frailty by contrasting it with
robotic infallibility.

To have Hollywood "hollywood" it will be murder. Maybe they'll do it
right, but then again... :-(

Asimov at the movies

Posted by Chris L on 2002/12/05 18:40

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"Dominic Thomas" wrote:

Apparently they're making a movie of Azimov's "I, Robot" starring Will
Smith.

See
http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=entertainmentNews&storyID=1847157
for slightly more information.

Dominic

Apart from the spelling of the man's name (well, hey) this fills me with
dread. That dread takes the form of a sour certainty that the story will
end with some robot breaking the rules.

The original Asimov stories didn't do this, of course. The main point
of Asimov's stories was to point up human frailty by contrasting it with
robotic infallibility.

To have Hollywood "hollywood" it will be murder. Maybe they'll do it
right, but then again... :-(

Of course the fact that 'I Robot' is not a novel, but a collection of short
stories does not give me any more hope.

Chris Lyth (CLyth@)
"He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool;
and he who dares not is a slave." -- Sir William Drummond