SUBMITTED BY Typhon24

March 8, 2003 —

From the Hollywood Reporter:

"A Knight's Tale" star Alan Tudyk is ready to follow in the footsteps of Andy Serkis and the CGI creation Gollum from "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers." Tudyk has been cast as the animation reference for the CGI character Sonny opposite Will Smith in the sci-fi actioner "I, Robot" for 20th Century Fox and director Alex Proyas. Shooting is to begin in May on the project, being produced by Laurence Mark and John Davis, with Wyck Godfrey and Topher Dow executive producing. The project, inspired by the classic story collection by Isaac Asimov, is a futuristic thriller in which a detective (Smith) investigates a crime that may have been perpetrated by a robot (Tudyk), even though the three prevailing laws of the robot society suggest that such a crime is impossible.