It does spit in the face of Asimov’s work tho. It started off as an Agatha Christie inspired murder mystery called Hardwired.
The script went through the shredder several times, one round because the publisher happened to have the “I, Robot” rights on hand and wanted to slap it on. Hence “suggested by” instead of the usual “inspired” or “based on” and even that’s a stretch.
Then when Will Smith was cast he went through the script like a wrecking ball putting an action movie spin on what was originally supposed to be a pretty brainy story, involving only a single human character figuring out a crime by talking to a bunch of artificial ones.
Basically, it could have been more, but threw it all out to become schlock, and dunked on an established respected name while it was at it.
And for the record, I enjoyed it. It was silly sci-fi schlock. I don’t need everything to be 2001.
It does spit in the face of Asimov’s work tho. It started off as an Agatha Christie inspired murder mystery called Hardwired.
The script went through the shredder several times, one round because the publisher happened to have the “I, Robot” rights on hand and wanted to slap it on. Hence “suggested by” instead of the usual “inspired” or “based on” and even that’s a stretch.
Then when Will Smith was cast he went through the script like a wrecking ball putting an action movie spin on what was originally supposed to be a pretty brainy story, involving only a single human character figuring out a crime by talking to a bunch of artificial ones.
Basically, it could have been more, but threw it all out to become schlock, and dunked on an established respected name while it was at it.