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**Imran Siddiqui** · December 23, 2003, 14:46

Lorizael, I don't think you can have sex with the robot. Sorry

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**Lorizael** · December 23, 2003, 14:48

Their slogan is "What will you do with yours?"

**Imran Siddiqui** · December 23, 2003, 14:48

Kidding aside, is this supposed to be a movie or something?

I know they are supposed to be working on an 'I, Robot' movie.

**Imran Siddiqui** · December 23, 2003, 14:50

Ah, poking around.. I guess it IS a cool website for the movie.

**Lorizael** · December 23, 2003, 14:50

Yup. Starring Will Smith as a "robophobic" police detective (not Elijah Bailey) investigating what appears to be the first murder of a human by a robot.

**Imran Siddiqui** · December 23, 2003, 14:53

I wish they would have just followed the story of 'I, Robot' with the 5 different stories. That would have been cool.

I have a feeling this is just going to be a sci-fi blowing things up movie and not philosophically interesting as Asimov's book

. Seems like they are going to do the same think to Philip K. Dlck's 'Paycheck'.

**Kassiopeia** · December 23, 2003, 14:53

I heard that it won't have anything to do with the story by Asimov, that they just bought the rights to the title. Which means that Ellison's script will remain as the best film you'll never see.

**Imran Siddiqui** · December 23, 2003, 14:55

Well it has SOME stuff to do with the original (GREAT!) story. They have the 3 laws of robotics and the positronic brains and whatnot.

**Lorizael** · December 23, 2003, 14:56

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
I wish they would have just followed the story of 'I, Robot' with the 5 different stories. That would have been cool.

I have a feeling this is just going to be a sci-fi blowing things up movie and not philosophically interesting as Asimov's book

. Seems like they are going to do the same think to Philip K. Dlck's 'Paycheck'.

Ugh, Asimov's stuff was never about blowing things up. But I'm going to have faith. Because this has the potential to be incredibly cool.

**Imran Siddiqui** · December 23, 2003, 14:59

True, Lorizael, they should have just called it something else. 'I, Robot' is about philosophically interesting questions of what is 'human'. Hopefully they'll have SOME of that, but I fear it'll be dumbed down, like it was in Minority Report (which if they followed the short story would have been so kick ass

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**Japher** · December 23, 2003, 15:03

Alex Proyas is the Director and he seems to be pretty good, IMO, and won't F it up if he can help it.

He did "The Crow" and "Dark City", as well as Metroid Prime

**Imran Siddiqui** · December 23, 2003, 15:04

Yeah, Japher, the Director ain't the problem. The problem is the scriptwriters

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**Japher** · December 23, 2003, 15:11

Jeff Vintar; only thing of note is Final Fantasy, The Spirits Within

Hillary Seitz; Insomnia

Akiva Goldsman; probably the most experienced, so most likely is the one running the show. Has written The Client, Batman Forever (barf), Batman and Robin (barf), A Time to Kill, Lost in Space, and A Beautiful Mind. Lot of transcriptions with A Beautiful Mind and Lost in Space the only real writting exper...

I think the Grishams were fine, and weren't F'd with them much...

**Imran Siddiqui** · December 23, 2003, 15:19

Yeah, and they've totally junked Asimov's awesome book.

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