To: pillbox_girl
With 'I Robot' Harlan Ellison (who wrote a brilliant screenplay adapatation that Asimov loved) said it best on his own board:
"The I, ROBOT opening next Friday is the awful retrofitting of an old screenplay called HARDWIRED that had been lying around for years, until it was picked up by Proyas. At that point, lawyers (or someone) who were slightly less illiterate than the usual movie gang, pointed out that the script used as its core the 3 Laws of Robotics that were clearly the creative property of the estate of the late Isaac Asimov. And so, properly fearing a lawsuit, they scampered fast as their asses-needing-covering would permit, and they bought the rights to the title of Isaac's classic collection of robot stories from an equally ignorant rights&permissions functionary at Doubleday. They changed the names of a few characters, they stuck in as little of the Asimov material as they could, and they used the idiotic robot-amuck CGI-festooned HARDWIRED, now retitled I, ROBOT."
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07/06/2005 2:36:48 PM PDT by
Borges
To: Borges
With 'I Robot' Harlan Ellison (who wrote a brilliant screenplay adapatation that Asimov loved) said it best on his own board Of course Harlan Ellison is an infamous crank who seems to hate everything not Harlan Ellison most of the time.
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