Anya ,'Dirty Girls'
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By story you mean the conglomeration of the nine?
Any combination you want. There's more than nine anyway. Asimov wrote a lot of robot stories. The Bicentennial Man was also one of his robot stories. In all of them the three laws worked the same way.
I thought the original screenplay was just basically Asimov-verse fanfic.
There's also a screenplay that was written by Harlan Ellison that was under consideration for a while, but never produced. He eventually released it in book form. I have a copy of it, but have never got around to reading it.
There's more than nine anyway.
I was only talking about I, Robot.
Nobody dies permanently in the Banzaiverse.
Well, "inspired by" usually refers to a true story.
Except it was used for The Iliad in Troy, wasn't it? I've seen it used on novels too, where the adaptation was especially unfaithful.
I think there must be formal guild rules, related to the legal rights, that get wrangled out based on percentage of material used or something, or else they'd all use the same phrase, right?
Sean ... there has been talk of a sequel for years. There was even talk of a tv series 2 or 3 years ago but nothing has come of it ... yet.
Oh, I know. I keep hoping a real project will gel, though.
I was only talking about I, Robot.
Yeah, but the rest of the stories take place in the same universe, and even feature the same characters, so if the screenwriters are claiming this is the tenth story, they're too late. Asimov wrote it years ago. And the eleventh. And the twelfth...
Except it was used for The Iliad in Troy, wasn't it?
Wasn't the Iliad inspired by a true story?
Yeah, I read...I think there's an "official" Banzai Institute site out there, or maybe it was an interview with Earl Mac Rauch...that Rawhide was, ahem, "mostly dead" and Professor Hikita did something to save him, or one of the Adders produced an antidote or something.
Actually, I think there was a Troy, and I think it got sacked a few times, but that's all the true story there is in the archaeological record. The time period in which The Iliad is supposed to have happened was an illiterate one for all supposed parties, IIRC.
if the screenwriters are claiming this is the tenth story, they're too late
I think even they'd have to "claim" it, not claim it. Since IT'S A BIG BUNCH OF CRAP. Though that might not be the words they use. But it was quite the retrofit. Retcon. You know. ASSPULL.