Jeppson says she looks forward to seeing the film. And she adds that he was realistic about the way Hollywood works. Isaac Asimov's wife, Janet Jeppson, tells Ulaby that Asimov liked movies, but didn't imagine his books cinematically.

The screenplay was published as an illustrated book a decade ago, and it's still in print. And film world insiders have long regretted the fate of an I, Robot screenplay written in the late 1970s by Asimov's friend Harlan Ellison.įans unhappy with the film version of I Robot - out this weekend with Will Smith in the starring role - launched Web sites and Internet petitions in protest long before it opened in theaters.Įllison's screenplay languished at Warner Brothers, even as it developed a reputation in some circles as the greatest science fiction movie never made.

Writer Isaac Asimov profoundly influenced the way people think about robots with his classic series of short stories, published more than half a century ago. But as NPR's Neda Ulaby points out, many sci-fi fans feel filmmakers should have paid more attention to the past. The movie version of I, Robot is set in the future, but firmly rooted in modern-day Hollywood's big-budget, summer movie mindset.

The cover of the illustrated version of 'I, Robot.' Equally at home in both pencil and oil paint, he's recently been the exclusive illustrator for the best-selling novel series 'Septimus Heap' by Angie Sage, and its sequel series 'TodHunter Moon.'. Equally at home in both pencil and oil paint, he's recently been the exclusive illustrator for the best-selling novel series 'Septimus Heap' by Angie Sage, and its sequel series 'TodHunter Moon.' Mark Zug is an illustrator of books, starting with his 1993 project 'I, Robot: The Illustrated Screenplay' by Harlan Ellison, and going on to illustrate books by Tanith Lee, Diana Wynne Jones, Paul Haven, the young prodigy Nancy Yi Fan, Edgar Rice Burroughs' classic Barsoom novelettes – all the while building a reputation for Golden-Age-inspired paintings in the world of fantasy games such as Magic the Gathering. Mark Zug is an illustrator of books, starting with his 1993 project 'I, Robot: The Illustrated Screenplay' by Harlan Ellison, and going on to illustrate books by Tanith Lee, Diana Wynne Jones, Paul Haven, the young prodigy Nancy Yi Fan, Edgar Rice Burroughs' classic Barsoom novelettes – all the while building a reputation for Golden-Age-inspired paintings in the world of fantasy games such as Magic the Gathering.

I robot the illustrated screenplay