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Will Smith as I, Robot
BuR4N writes "It looks like Asimov's sci-fi classic, I Robot, is going to be a movie. Shooting starts April next year staring Will Smith and directed by Alex Proyas (Dark City and The Crow).
Being a huge Asimov fan I have not made up my mind if this is a good or bad thing.
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Let's just hope he doesn't say the robot equivalent of "I make this look good!"
Let's hope Will Smmith does the story justice. Any reason to think he won't ??
$ strings FTP.EXE | grep Copyright
@(#) Copyright (c) 1983 The Regents of the University of California.
Because it seems like he's rapped about every other one too (Men in Black, Wild Wild West, etc). I wonder what it will sound like, and will it have 'ha ha, ha ha' at the end of every line.
First Law:
A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
Second Law:
A robot must obey orders given it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
Third Law:
A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law
Fourth Law:
???
Fifth Law:
Profit !!!
Shooting starts April 2003? Not soon enough! But seriously, I loved the original stories and for all Will Smith is annoying, I think he could pull of the detective roll pretty well.
The inevitable chart song, however, seems a different story...
Besides of having doubts Will being the man for the job, I am quite afraid they will even spoil the original story. I mean that happens in a lot of (American) movies...
Imagine the movie ending with a happy robot-man, robot-wife, two robot-kids (girl & boy), living in a big robot-house, surrounded by nice robot-flowers and a nive big and shiny robot-car... and a Will Smith song...
OUCH.
giel.y contains 2 shift/reduce conflicts
Wouldnt it be great if instead of the Laws of robotics they programmed robots with the rules of aquisition?
Oh wait.. that's Hollywood isn't it?
First Law:
A robot may not get jiggy with a human being, or, through getting jiggy with it, allow a human being to come to harm.
Second Law:
A robot must get jiggy with it under orders given it by human beings, except where getting jiggy with it would conflict with the First Law.
Third Law:
A robot must protect its getting jiggy with it as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
Just because you can mod me down, doesn't mean you're right. Shoes for industry!
OMG, I hope there isn't a new Will Smith song with this movie... jeez, it'll be so bad if he tries to sing something serious or make some sort of "message to the children" warning them of a possible dystopian robotic future.
Yo, Damn these robots be confusin'
Now that they start abusin.
Who knows when they might go bad?
I almost wish that I had
invested in a new computer game pad
than this faulty piece of metal.
These three laws be dead
and I don't wanna face no battle,
should bought my baby a rattle,
or a craft matic adjustable bed!
Peace!
Seriously though, I hope they take this movie seriously... seriously.
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.. but he just isn't what I picture when I read about Dr. Susan Calvin.
There is nothing so silly as other peoples traditions, and nothing so sacred as our own.
I think being a huge Asimov fan is always a good thing. Keep up the good work, chap!
They could of gave the part to Paul Ruben instead.
I always thought of Susan Calvin as a female!
:)
This sci fi stuff is getting stranger all the time
Subsequent drafts of the script have been done by Hillary Seitz ("Insomnia") and Oscar-winning "A Beautiful Mind" scribe Akiva Goldsman, who wrote the last draft and is expected to be a prevailing presence on the picture.
Funny that it's Akiva "A Beautiful Mind" Goldsman, not Akiva "Batman and Robin" Goldsman or Akiva "Lost in Space" Goldsman or Akiva "Practical Magic" Goldsman.
Sure, he wrote one passable movie, but... We must never forget!
Maybe that's a sign that you don't really want to buy the DVD?
Don't think of it as a mangling of the book; think of it as its own k3wl new thing. Agent Elrond was great:
The ring must be destroyed... Mr. Underhill.
Alex Proyas won't let this movie be complete shit, but then if Will Smith is in any way involved... It's like an electron and a positron colliding. Maybe if Smith takes some ham out of his diet... and perhaps READS the book at least once... fuck, who am I kidding. It's going to be an abomination.