What can you even do with it? The stories are an extended intellectual exercise, according to my distant memories as a 14 year old. Interesting in the way that the I,Robot stories are, but look what they had to do to that story to make a movie out of it.
Could work as a TV miniseries drama, but as a blockbuster movie?
The interviewer's question is exactly the kind of empty question you could expect from someone who, as he himself admitted, hasn't read the books.