{"id":96413,"date":"2025-11-13T02:00:51","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T07:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=96413"},"modified":"2025-07-04T20:20:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T00:20:28","slug":"i-robot-the-ellison-script","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2025\/11\/13\/i-robot-the-ellison-script\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>I, Robot<\/em>: The Ellison Script"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jJBdDGe5NYg?si=-Am8FURaZe8Z78Ue\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Feral Historian<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 4 Jul 2025<\/p>\n<p>Harlan Ellison&#8217;s screenplay adaptation of Isaac Asimov&#8217;s <em>I, Robot<\/em> is arguably the best sci-fi movie never made. Let&#8217;s take a look at the script itself, why the film was never made, and how it might have altered science fiction cinema in the wake of <em>Star Wars<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>00:00 Intro<br \/>\n01:59 Robbie<br \/>\n04:32 A Little Detour<br \/>\n06:18 A Lifetime and a Galaxy<br \/>\n12:12 Liar<br \/>\n14:06 A New Theory<br \/>\n16:29 The Rapid Rise of the Federation<br \/>\n21:01 Obstacles and Ellison<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd39 Patreon   | patreon.com\/FeralHistorian<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd39 Ko-Fi     | ko-fi.com\/feralhistorian<br \/>\nObligatory plug for <em>Ninti&#8217;s Gate<\/em><br \/>\n\ud83d\udd39 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0CYXH9BWD\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0CYXH9BWD<\/a><br \/>\nand now on Kobo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&#038;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbUwxbnlPQ3FzN3doRUN5MTVkalZBN3dJUTRFZ3xBQ3Jtc0tuQzdJblFxUm1Dbl9iN3FqM2JZNVlGeFk5dHVhYU8zbTV3eGN6OVJLVDdFUGZrSUpnR1M4YXFqdWZ2bGRMT3FFaGVCRlpSTnBhX0F3bG16SDJZLXFKS3VTSEJ1VFJ1WFlRcHVNSUI0bjNFSW4tREhkaw&#038;q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kobo.com%2Fus%2Fen%2Febook%2Fninti-s-gate%3FsId%3Df30f9d90-907a-449a-aeab-7b25215297f1&#038;v=jJBdDGe5NYg\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.kobo.com\/us\/en\/ebook\/nint&#8230;<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feral Historian Published 4 Jul 2025 Harlan Ellison&#8217;s screenplay adaptation of Isaac Asimov&#8217;s I, Robot is arguably the best sci-fi movie never made. Let&#8217;s take a look at the script itself, why the film was never made, and how it might have altered science fiction cinema in the wake of Star Wars. 00:00 Intro 01:59 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,28],"tags":[1593,1218,122,36,85],"class_list":["post-96413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-media","tag-feralhistorian","tag-isaacasimov","tag-movies","tag-robots","tag-sf"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-p53","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96414,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96413\/revisions\/96414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}