Although the Three Laws themselves first appear in "Runaround," Alex Proyas' I, Robot otherwise relies most heavily on numerous concepts and details that originate in "Robbie," "Liar," "Little Lost Robot," and "The Evitable Conflict." Yet, as a "locked room" murder mystery solved with a guardian robot's assistance by a robot-hating homicide detective, the film's structure as well as some characterization is taken more directly from the Robot novels. Such specific elements as the posthumous hologram are imported from the Foundation series. The film's prejudice motif is prominent in almost all of Isaac Asimov's SF, including I, Robot. And, while most memorable in their iteration thirty-five years later in Robots and Empire, both the "Zeroth Law" and the logic that compels villainous supercomputer V.I.K.I. to develop it - which drives the film's plot by motivating her attempted coup - are deduced and articulated first in "The Evitable Conflict." Proyas's film is thus far more faithful to Asimov's eponymous story collection, as well as to his entire SF corpus, than it appears at first examination. But it is derived from Asimov's entire corpus, not merely from one story collection, and this suggests that a film adaptation can be faithful to its source by echoing the vision suffusing all of an author's works.

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