Will Smith as I, Robot

BuR4N writes "It looks like Asimov's sci-fi classic, I Robot, is going to be a movie. Shooting starts April next year staring Will Smith and directed by Alex Proyas (Dark City and The Crow). Being a huge Asimov fan I have not made up my mind if this is a good or bad thing. "

Will Smith as the robot?

[YoJaUta]

Let's just hope he doesn't say the robot equivalent of "I make this look good!"

I "said Nod Ya Head" Robot ?

[maharg]

Let's hope Will Smmith does the story justice. Any reason to think he won't ??

Is Will Smith going to rap in this movie too?

[rob-fu]

Because it seems like he's rapped about every other one too (Men in Black, Wild Wild West, etc). I wonder what it will sound like, and will it have 'ha ha, ha ha' at the end of every line.

5 rules for robotic actors

[Trusty Penfold]

First Law:
A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

Second Law:
A robot must obey orders given it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

Third Law:
A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law

Fourth Law:
???

Fifth Law:
Profit !!!

This would have made a better movie

[deathcloset]

Will smith would make the perfect rower [theonion.com]

Shooting Will Smith?

[russx2]

Shooting starts April 2003? Not soon enough! But seriously, I loved the original stories and for all Will Smith is annoying, I think he could pull of the detective roll pretty well.

The inevitable chart song, however, seems a different story...

Re:Is Will Smith going to rap in this movie too?

[Erik K. Veland]

Yeah, that Ali rap was hillarious.

"I am the greatest - uh uh
I am the greatest - uh uh"

Re:Disapointment

[giel]

Besides of having doubts Will being the man for the job, I am quite afraid they will even spoil the original story. I mean that happens in a lot of (American) movies...

Imagine the movie ending with a happy robot-man, robot-wife, two robot-kids (girl & boy), living in a big robot-house, surrounded by nice robot-flowers and a nive big and shiny robot-car... and a Will Smith song...

OUCH.

Robot as ferengi

[joelwest]

Wouldnt it be great if instead of the Laws of robotics they programmed robots with the rules of aquisition?

Oh wait.. that's Hollywood isn't it?

Re:I "said Nod Ya Head" Robot ?

[Hellkitten]

The warning signs will be pre-release robotic rap videos.

Does this mean that doing "the robot" on the dance floor will become cool?

Oh horror, I wouldn't care if they mutilated the story as I would be warned and could avoid seeing it, but if people start doing the robot I might have to lock myself in the basement

Re:Will Smith as the robot?

[dr_dank]

Will Smith points to Robbie from Lost in Space:

"Old and Busted"

Will Smith points to self:

"New hotness"

The Revised Laws of Robotics:

[NeuroManson]

First Law:
A robot may not get jiggy with a human being, or, through getting jiggy with it, allow a human being to come to harm.

Second Law:
A robot must get jiggy with it under orders given it by human beings, except where getting jiggy with it would conflict with the First Law.

Third Law:
A robot must protect its getting jiggy with it as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

No will smith songs, please

[CriX]

OMG, I hope there isn't a new Will Smith song with this movie... jeez, it'll be so bad if he tries to sing something serious or make some sort of "message to the children" warning them of a possible dystopian robotic future.

Yo, Damn these robots be confusin'
Now that they start abusin.
Who knows when they might go bad?
I almost wish that I had
invested in a new computer game pad
than this faulty piece of metal.
These three laws be dead
and I don't wanna face no battle,
should bought my baby a rattle,
or a craft matic adjustable bed!
Peace!

Seriously though, I hope they take this movie seriously... seriously.

Dr who?

[IPFreely]

Will is a good actor and all...

.. but he just isn't what I picture when I read about Dr. Susan Calvin.

Re:5 rules for robotic actors

[clickety6]

A robot may not injure humanity or, through inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.


versus

Will SMith starring in I, Robot

Conflict! Conflict! Does not compute! Conflict! Destroy! Exterminate! Exterminate! Extermin....*BOOM*

Re:Is Will Smith going to rap in this movie too?

[GianfrancoZola]

Don't forget his other old standbys:

"Ya'll feel me, ya'll feel me?"
-or-
"Uh uh"

Truly one of the great lyrical artisans of this era.

good or bad thing?

[Rader]

Being a huge Asimov fan I have not made up my mind if this is a good or bad thing. "

I think being a huge Asimov fan is always a good thing. Keep up the good work, chap!

Re:Is Will Smith going to rap in this movie too?

[Anonymous Coward]

No, he'll rip off 'doin da butt' by EU, and the song will be 'Doin Da 'Bot'

Not exactly a classic, I suppose.

Could be worse

[Binarybrain]

They could of gave the part to Paul Ruben instead.

Re:I "said Nod Ya Head" Robot ?

[Anonymous Coward]

Personally I hope that Jeff Goldblum can get a part as en eccentric scientist. It would be good for him to do something like that. Something different.

That's funny

[iplayfast]

I always thought of Susan Calvin as a female!

This sci fi stuff is getting stranger all the time :)

Remember the Alamo

[dswensen]

Subsequent drafts of the script have been done by Hillary Seitz ("Insomnia") and Oscar-winning "A Beautiful Mind" scribe Akiva Goldsman, who wrote the last draft and is expected to be a prevailing presence on the picture.

Funny that it's Akiva "A Beautiful Mind" Goldsman, not Akiva "Batman and Robin" Goldsman or Akiva "Lost in Space" Goldsman or Akiva "Practical Magic" Goldsman.

Sure, he wrote one passable movie, but... We must never forget!

Re:One to see

[martyn s]

Maybe that's a sign that you don't really want to buy the DVD?

Appreciate the movie in its own right

[adb]

Don't think of it as a mangling of the book; think of it as its own k3wl new thing. Agent Elrond was great:

The ring must be destroyed... Mr. Underhill.

Proyas == good

[Anonymous Coward]

Alex Proyas won't let this movie be complete shit, but then if Will Smith is in any way involved... It's like an electron and a positron colliding. Maybe if Smith takes some ham out of his diet... and perhaps READS the book at least once... fuck, who am I kidding. It's going to be an abomination.