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Fox Headed to Asimov's 'Caves of Steel'
Source: Deadline
20th Century Fox has begun working on a live-action adaptation of the Isaac Asimov novel 'The Caves of Steel', and have attached fledgling director Henry Hobson to direct. Fox's last foray into the realm of Asimov's writing, 2004's 'I, Robot' starring Will Smith, netted the studio nearly $350 million worldwide, so you can't blame them for trying to draw water from that particular well again.
However, 'Caves of Steel' might seem a bit too familiar to the movie-going audience, as it shares many themes and situations from the film adaptation of 'I, Robot', which itself was a very loose adaptation of a series of short stories by Asimov. In 'Caves', all of mankind has spread and overrun the world, leading to the colonization of other worlds (or "Spacer" planets) and the incredible overpopulation of planet Earth, forcing them to develop massive mega-cities of steel. While lifelike humanoid robots are used for everyday life on the outer planets, there have been strict regulations put in place on Earth banning them. However, when a pro-robot lobbyist is suspiciously murdered, a plain clothes police officer is given a Spacer robot as a partner to solve the case.
The plot for the film adaptation of 'I, Robot' was mostly original work by it's screenwriters, using a few bits from some of Asimov's stories such as 'Little Lost Robot'. However, because they chose to go a different direction with that film, will it impact 'The Caves of Steel', which admittedly has a very similar plot? Only time will tell. Hobson, who has made a career out of creating inventive title sequences for films such as 'Sherlock Holmes' and 'Rango', will direct the film off of a script by writer and space enthusiast John Scott.
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Tags: Asimov, Caves of Steel, I, Robot, Isaac, murder, robots, sci-fi, similar, three laws
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Comment by Sam Hill on September 25, 2011 at 5:48am
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Comment by GodDamnRobots on September 24, 2011 at 5:49pm -
Fingers crossed. Last time they made an Asimov movie, I discovered Will Smith yelling "god damn robots!" Maybe I'll have a new screen name next movie!
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Comment by Doktor Awesome on September 23, 2011 at 10:26pm -
Sounds like someone really loves Blade Runner and Lethal Weapon (2, it seems like a closer fit) enough to smash the two into one movie.
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Comment by strange-benhur on September 23, 2011 at 6:37pm -
I read the book last year and all I think of during my read is that if they went and made this into a movie is that, one, there will be no action and two, it well bored a lot of people. However we will see and if they want some one to play R.Daneel Olivaw, I want him to be played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
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Comment by Badman3000 aka H.N.I.C on September 23, 2011 at 5:42pm -
@ Theboogieman
Yes that's it.
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Comment by TheBoogieMan on September 23, 2011 at 5:32pm -
@Badman3000 aka H.N.I.C
Now that I think about it, the anime version of Metropolis seems quite similar in plot to this. Maybe that's it?
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Comment by Badman3000 aka H.N.I.C on September 23, 2011 at 5:25pm
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I think their is an anime adaptation of this story,and for the life of I can't what the name of it is.
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Comment by Russell on September 23, 2011 at 4:36pm
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I was in middle school when I discovered my love of books, and Caves of Steel was the first book that made me love reading...the book is technically the sequel to I, Robot (the novel not the film) and the beginning of Asimov's four part Robot Series. The Will Smith movie took bits and pieces from this book, Smith's character is basically a modernized version of Elijah Bailey. And the accused robot in that film, I think, shares the same characteristics of R.Daneel Olivaw. I don't think they will do the book justice, they will probably butcher it and make is just an action film like they did I, Robot and completely get away from the robot phobia shared by Elijah and his wife. And dull down the mystery and if i'm not mistaken they might have totally ripped off the plot of I, Robot from Caves of Steel...so what the hell will they do next?
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Comment by PvtSnafu on September 23, 2011 at 3:52pm -
Sounds interesting. Surprised nobody commented about this yet.
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