Alan Tudyk in "I, Robot"
POSTED BY: TheClaps
UPDATED: Thursday, April 1, 2004 21:01
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Originally posted by TheClaps:
Anyways, anyone know anything about the book and might be able to explain who "Sonny" is?
I don't remember all the details, but Isaac Asimov wrote a series of "Robot" themed short stories which were kind of a mixture of "Dixon Hill" and high tech mysteries. There were three robotic laws, which were:
A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
A detective (Sonny?) would come across a mysterious incident involving robots and have to puzzle it out.
These were pretty clever (at least to a 13 year old). I doubt that the new movie will be as intellectually stimulating - probably heavier on the explosions and flashy gadgets than the stories were.
"Why're you arguin' what's already been decided?"
Mal to Jayne, "Jaynestown"
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When we saw the trailer this past week my wife asked me how close it looked to the original plot. I leaned over in the theater and said, "Well, it's an Asimov story, so the only action in the story was people sitting down before they talked about what happened off-scene."
At that point in the trailer several hundred robots were reampaging across the screen. I'm thinking it won't be a very accurate adaptation...
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From everything I have read about this film, I believe it started out with an original screenplay, then someone noticed some similarities between the script and Asimov's stories and suggested they obtain rights to his work so they could use the Three Laws. Other than that I do not think there is much chance the film will resemble Asimov's work. I have not read all of his robot stories and novels, but I have read all of the ones in the "I, Robot" collection (+ a few more) and I am pretty sure there is no character or robot by the name of Sonny in any of them.
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