Reddit reviews I, Robot: The Illustrated Screenplay
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I'm still waiting for Ellison's screenplay of I, Robot to be made into a movie.
One faithful rendition, that's all I ask.
Harlan Ellison made it work.
An illustrated screenplay he wrote was published several years ago, and it's actually pretty good. It shouldn't be too hard to find at a library.
All the short stories are tied together by a journalist who's investigating Susan Calvin. So over the course of the movie, we would have gotten flashbacks to all the stories as the reporter conducted interviews. And the movie would have had an interesting twist ending that wasn't in the book.
What about 'I, Robot'? The real one.
Having read Harlan Ellison's screenplay years before this Will Smith vehicle came out, all I can say is I was very very sad thinking about what it should have been. Visually it was a good sci-fi popcorn action movie, but I just wish...
The greatest science fiction movie never made is
I, Robot
Based on the stories of Isaac Asimov, screenplay by Harlan Ellison, concept art by Mark Zug
>You can't base a movie on I robot because it is a collection of short stories showing how anomolies can occur in the 3 laws...
I beg to fucking differ.
They are a bit dated now, but Asimov was a genius.
http://www.amazon.com/I-Robot-The-Illustrated-Screenplay/dp/0743486595
Harlan Ellison's I, Robot screenplay. From the description:
>The Citizen Kane-esque plot follows journalist Robert Bratenahl's quest to unearth the exact nature of the relationship between legendary robopsychologist Dr. Susan Calvin and Alfred Lanning, director of U.S. Robotics and Mechanical Men. What he ultimately discovers, however, is so much more.
Too bad they didn't make an I, Robot movie from Harlan Ellison's script, which Ellison wrote in collaboration with Asimov himself in the late '70s. Asimov said that if a movie were made from that script, it would lead to "the first really adult, complex, worthwhile science fiction movie ever made".
Wikipedia's summary: "Ellison's script builds a framework around Asimov's short stories that involves a reporter named Robert Bratenahl tracking down information about Susan Calvin's alleged former lover Stephen Byerly. Asimov's stories are presented as flashbacks that differ from the originals in their stronger emphasis on Calvin's character. Ellison placed Calvin into stories in which she did not originally appear and fleshed out her character's role in ones where she did. In constructing the script as a series of flashbacks that focused on character development rather than action, Ellison used the film Citizen Kane as a model".
The script was published in illustrated book form, for those curious about what might have been.
Library Journal's review of that said: "Ellison's script for I, Robot, dubbed 'the greatest science fiction movie never made,' was actually written in the late 1970s but floundered because of supposed high production costs and other assorted difficulties, which are explained in the introduction. The Citizen Kane-esque plot follows journalist Robert Bratenahl's quest to unearth the exact nature of the relationship between legendary robopsychologist Dr. Susan Calvin and Alfred Lanning, director of U.S. Robotics and Mechanical Men. What he ultimately discovers, however, is so much more. Ellison adroitly borrows subplots from several of Asimov's original I, Robot stories-although the script is more the fruit of Ellison's mind than Asimov's-and along with Calvin are the familiar faces of Mike Donovan, Greg Powell, Robbie, Lennie, and other robots. Ellison and Asimov make a helluva combination, and although Ellison's script may never make it to the screen, having this beautifully illustrated edition of it is almost as satisfying. Perhaps if this volume sells well enough, I, Robot may yet be filmed. Let's hope. Highly recommended".