Asimov's "I, Robot" Gets Movie Treatment

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Asimov's "I, Robot" Gets Movie Treatment

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday December 23, 2003 @01:51AM from the stuff-to-see dept.

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."

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What? No trailer link? by c_oflynn · 2003-12-23 01:53 · Score: 1, Redundant

Geeze - they should have put a link directly to a nice full-quality trailer, perferably in .avi format (no encoding).
Re:imdb.com description by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-23 02:06 · Score: 0, Redundant

Except, of course, this movies is based on stories that were written more than 50 years ago. The Matrix was cool, but it was not very original SF.
Re:Trailer, anyone? by ElFrito · 2003-12-23 02:15 · Score: 0, Redundant

It's here: http://a772.g.akamai.net/5/772/51/96ec7e42288f68/1 a1a1aaa2198c627970773d80669d84574a8d80d3cb12453c02 589f25382f668c9329e0375e8177dec6493fc5bcd3c9e0d81/ i_robot_fox320.mov Yw.
Re:Trailer, anyone? by ElFrito · 2003-12-23 02:18 · Score: 0, Redundant

Link to trailer? Please? Pretty please? How about instead of begging for a link, you do like the rest of us and Google it http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie =UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=i%2C+robot+trailer
Re:Apple ads? by rafael_es_son · 2003-12-23 03:24 · Score: 0, Redundant

pointer to the point
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Re:Race matters... only to racists by rafael_es_son · 2003-12-23 04:01 · Score: 0, Redundant

Pointer to the point.

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Re:Apple ads? by rafael_es_son · 2003-12-23 04:07 · Score: 0, Redundant

Pointer to the point.

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Re:They are taking an antiquated story and... by rafael_es_son · 2003-12-23 04:11 · Score: 0, Redundant

Pointer to the point.

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