budget studio film. When Fox acquired the rights to  Isaac Asimov (qv)s story collection, Vintar spent two years  adapting Hardwired to serve as a tenth story in the Asimov canon,  complete with Susan Calvin and the Three Laws of Robotics.  Hillary Seitz (qv) worked at one point as script doctor. Writer  Akiva Goldsman (qv) came on late in the process to tailor the  script to Will Smith (I) (qv).