Asimov's "I, Robot" Gets Movie Treatment

sdimbert writes "Isaac Asimov's classic collection of short stories about the role robots play in humankind's future is being made into a movie set to release on July 16, 2004, starring Wil Smith. The most notable part of the release build-up is the fact that the movie's trailer, most often seen before screenings of The Returnn of the King plays more like a product commercial (like Apple's flat-panel iMac ads) than a movie trailer. Suffice it to say that most of the audence that saw it with me had no idea they had just seen a movie trailer; they actually believed that someone was going to start selling a "fully automated domestic assistant" some time next year."

Comments

Re:Apple ads?

[rafael_es_son]

Oh this sounds like it will be such a loss. The casting of Smith already hints at a typical "politically correct", trendy actor ladden, ball of crap hurled from Hollywood. It stinks of rotten adaptation

Any /.'s care to comment on this?

Wil Wheaton's Great Talent

[AtariAmarok]

"sorry for the mild flaming, but you really need to see his other work. The Sundance channel ran one of the shorts he played the lead role in that showed more of his abilities than the typecasting that STTNG does."

I've seen those. He gets to go beyond his more limited roles, and actually fire phasers and punch Klingons. He even sleeps with a Deltan at the end of one film. They truly show the range of his talent.