II Robot

This is a beauty!

Over at Collider, Ronald D. Moore (Battlestar Galactica) says in an interview that he is working on a script to a sequel to the 2004 Will Smith film I, Robot.

Well the fact remains that if you're going to do sci-fi in Hollywood and you want to pesuade your producers that it's going to make enough money to warrant their spending several tens of millions on special effects so you don't have to make an unwatchable piece of crap like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, then you probably need to (a) hire a slick but soulless hack like Goldsman to rewrite your script; (b) cast a guaranteed buck- and fannie-magnet like Smith to play your dumbed-down lead role; (c) remove any hint of moral complexity from your plot and characters; (d) add some horribly old-fashioned morality tale saccharine to make everyone feel good about themselves for not having had to make a difficult decision; (e) go shoot yourself in the fucking head before you subject us poor defenseless citizens to your bullshit in the first place.

That's not poetry, that's force-feeding excrement to children. Now you can feed what you like to your kids, but don't label your excrement "soy protein" and try to feed it to everyone else's kids too.

On the other hand, if you've never read Asimov, you might be under the impression that there are some kind of cool sci-fi ideas in the first film. And hey, at least they didn't make the stupid version that Ellison wrote. That would have sucked and bombed.