Shiver Me Timbers!
By John DeNardo |
Monday, June 7th, 2004 at
10:49 am
I was walking past a books shelf in a supermarket this weekend and saw this atrocity. It’s a reissue of Asimov’s I, Robot featuring the movie poster with Will Smith. Now, I know that movie adaptations are different than the originating book (by necessity what with it being a different medium), but Yikes! It still sent shivers up my spine.
ADDENDUM: Check out the Reader’s Guide to I, Robot.
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Looks like its the original text with an updated cover. What is it that they say:
Don’t judge a book by its cover — especially if it has Wil Smith on it.
If nothing else, it might attract people to read a novel that they would not otherwise touch.
Another question for the reader’s guide:
What, if anything, does Will Smith’s movie have to do with I, Robot? Aside from the name that is.
Correct answers receive double bonus points, or cookies.
They both have robots in it? I am sure they both have a robot of some kind…
as in the robotic-like acting epitomized by Wil Smith? or the robotic response of the general masses to flock to his films?