As a friend pointed out to me, "I, Robot" was not an adaptation of Asimov's book. What is was, was Asimov fanfiction. If you're willing to view it that way, the movie is quite good. And yes, I refused to see it in theaters since it wasn't Asimov's story
Douglas Adams did not in fact write the script used in the current movie. What happened was that he wrote a script and passed away. The person who wrote the script in use (you know that other guy in the credits for script writing) looked at/started from/incorporated Adams's script and therefore Adam's has to be credited. This is actually a good thing for the movie because it implies that a) Douglas Adams wrote the script and b) it's an adaptation of the book. All the ads I've seen for the movie have the line "from the best selling novel" or something very similiar.
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As a friend pointed out to me, "I, Robot" was not an adaptation of Asimov's book. What is was, was Asimov fanfiction. If you're willing to view it that way, the movie is quite good. And yes, I refused to see it in theaters since it wasn't Asimov's story
Douglas Adams did not in fact write the script used in the current movie. What happened was that he wrote a script and passed away. The person who wrote the script in use (you know that other guy in the credits for script writing) looked at/started from/incorporated Adams's script and therefore Adam's has to be credited. This is actually a good thing for the movie because it implies that a) Douglas Adams wrote the script and b) it's an adaptation of the book. All the ads I've seen for the movie have the line "from the best selling novel" or something very similiar.