People always miss the part in Frankenstein where Dr. Frankenstein is repulsed by his creation and wanted to destroy it first, while the Monster was looking for validation and acceptance from his creator.

I am in love with them using “suggested by” instead of “inspired by” or even “partly based on” because not only is that THE WEIRDEST way to phrase that but it brings to mind an image of the book leaning over to Vintar and going “…psst… hey dude, what if…”

Harlan Ellison on Isaac Asimov: "He had writer's block once. It was the worst ten minutes of his life."

FUN FACT: Asimov's book "I, Robot" was also renamed to match the 1939 short story, of the same name, by Eando Binder. Asimov wanted the title to be "Mind and Iron" but the publisher decided to use Binder's title instead.

The thing about Asimov is that you could reasonably adapt most of his work for theatre. His galactic level shennennigans mostly take place in backroom negotiations, and conflict is mostly verbal. It's a real shame not more adaptations were made back when TV was mostly filmed theatre.

“I, Robot” is a book of short stories exploring the various problems that can result from the application of his 3 laws, the studio basically just bought title recognition.

There's something subtly hilarious about wording a credit as "suggested by" instead of "based on" or "adapted from".

To be fair, the poor guy who had to do the screenplay for this did just about the best job you could at juggling all those conflicting elements. Hats off to him!

There’s a funny scene to show how cool Will Smith is for being anti-tech. His radio is playing loud music, and Susan Calvin is shouting at it “Off! End program!” And then Will Smith comes in and smugly presses the off button, and we’re all ‘hahaha dumb future lady.’ What fools we were. This is exactly how I feel nowadays shouting “Alexa! Echo! Siri!” Or when I’m uselessly hitting my phone or credit card on a machine like a caveman.

Wait. If memory serves me correctly, the doctor guy who used Sunny to orchestrate his own murder, did actually know Det. Spooner beforehand. If I'm not mistaken, it was the doctor guy who performed the surgery that gave Spooner his cybernetic augmentations after his car crash.

Fun fact: In the original book for Frankenstein, the “monster” never originally intended to kill anyone at first. It was the doctor leaving him to rot that led to the murderous revenge killing spree. They even tried to negotiate at one point.

Spooner never met Lanning? It is very well established that Lanning and Spooner are friends. That is also part of why Spooner fights so hard at this case! He is his friend, and he tests others with casual dismissal of Lanning to see how they react. When Susan reacts badly at this accusation, he begins to trust her. When his grandma learns of Lanning's passing she says how he took care of her boy!

Asimov is so fast as a writer he literally wrote an adaptation to a work before the original was published. I am in awe.