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    The movieI, Robotwas so different from the book I'm surprised they even needed the rights to the book to make it.
  • @AzorAhai - there are enough similarities that permission would have been required, eg the existence of the character Susan Calvin (albeit with a somewhat different time line).
  • They probably could have done a robots movie without acquiring the rights, but the success was probably much more guaranteed by promoting the movie as being an adaptation of the Asimov books...
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