Yes, unfortunately. The problem with "I, Robot" was, it started out as an entirely unrelated movie in production, called "Hardwired", and they got hold of the Asimov IP and slapped on the name, changed some character names to match, and tweaked it a little bit. It's main connection to Asimov's story is the name.
Y'know, if that's true then either "Hardwired" leaned very, very heavily on Asimov's robot stories or they did a <i>lot</i> of rewriting after changing the title.
...it certainly wasn't a perfect movie, and was blighted by some crass-beyond-believe product placement (plus, Susan Calvin as the love interest.. =:-O ) but the main plot strands (how could a three-laws robot apparently commit murder, robots/computers becoming so sophisticated they think their way out of the three laws and and use them to justify playing God to better protect "Humanity"). Ultimately, I thought it worked well as a mainstream film "inspired" by the Asimov stories. Anyway, since the book "I Robot" was a collection of shorts, they couldn't exactly stick to the story.
I think that's probably a better approach than trying to film the book: after all, the biggest successes in the SF-book-to-movie category have been the P.K. Dick adaptations which (mostly) just take a couple of key ideas from the book and weave a completely new story around them. Not saying that Blade Runner is a better story than Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (it isn't) but I think its a better movie than a closer adaptation would have been. I think Total Recall and Minority Report may actually be better stories than the originals (We Can Remember for you Wholesale was basically a comedy, Minority Report had some remarkably non-threatening and forgiving bad guys...)
Trouble with adapting Sci-Fi novels like Foundation as films faithfully is that the novels tend to be slow-moving, cerebral and exposition-laden which would result in a film with art-house audience appeal and a summer blockbuster effects budget.
Its a while since I read "foundation" but what I remember is basically "the Hari Seldon lectures on Psychohistory" with huge time-jumps in between. great SF, great radio play (pretty sure its been done), but a movie/big-budget TV series? Unless, you present it as something like The Man from Earth (basically: a bunch of people sitting around a room talking for 90 minutes) which could be a hard sell.
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For example, Breaking Bad - if Apple bought the rights then they have it changed from Walt cooking meth in the desert to doing baggies in the evening on a street corner to make his fortune - it's similar but with the excitement turned down.
I wouldn't assume that Netflix are too anti-hero friendly. They just made Altered Carbon and turned the protagonist into a crusader against a corrupt regime with a heroic revolutionary past and a soppy backstory involving his sister... instead of an ex-government elite soldier turned mercenary with a relaxed attitude to switching sides and a conscience that only cut in if it provided an excuse for retaliatory ultra-violence. They did leave the sex and violence in, though (it wasn't that bad).