WB doing 'Foundation' trilogy

[Doom Shepherd]

Given how free and easy Emmerich is with real history (cf. The Patriot/10,000BC) I can only wonder how free and easy he will be with someone else's invented history.

Could be worse... could be Paul Verhoeven. He already viciously mangled one great SF classic author's work.

WB doing Foundation trilogy

hows velocity doing today, long time no see lol. im not dead just in college ><

And hows my favorite rep Brain ?

-JB

[raw_bean]

It seems to me that while the original trilogy are not very cinematic (for all the reasons already mentioned), the series evolved into longer and more character driven narratives (as opposed to generational episodic stories dealing with each crisis) over time and the later books are far more suitable for adapting. Prelude to Foundation and Forward the Foundation could work quite well, for example.

Either way, my expectations are very, very low for this.

[Dan Dassow]

Encouraging, but this is still Roland Emmerich, who will probably try to find a way to shoe-horn in a scene of the White House being destroyed.

Given how free and easy Emmerich is with real history (cf. The Patriot/10,000BC) I can only wonder how free and easy he will be with someone else's invented history.

Eek! This looks like another travesty to be visited upon the works of Isaac Asimov.

[Garibaldi's Hair]

Encouraging, but this is still Roland Emmerich, who will probably try to find a way to shoe-horn in a scene of the White House being destroyed.

Given how free and easy Emmerich is with real history (cf. The Patriot/10,000BC) I can only wonder how free and easy he will be with someone else's invented history.

[frulad]

Encouraging, but this is still Roland Emmerich, who will probably try to find a way to shoe-horn in a scene of the White House being destroyed.

[vakie]

Digging up this thread, latest tidbits from Emmerich: he's hired Robert Rodat (Saving Private Ryan, The Patriot) to write the script.

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=57499

"'Foundation' is my first attempt to do a series of movies, because we're developing three movies: 'Foundation,' 'Foundation and Empire' and 'Second Foundation,'" he told us. "It took me a long time to actually wait for the moment where the rights were totally free and we got them all, it's like 11 books, and we own the title 'Foundation' and also some of the robot novels and now we can really do these. I just hired a very good writer, the writer of 'Saving Private Ryan' who wrote 'The Patriot' for me and he's incredible. He is the most knowledgeable person I ever met about the 'Foundation' novels. It's great to write with somebody like that because there's no, 'I'll just look in the book and see what's there'... he knows it. I had a certain idea and he had a certain idea and that together I think will make this a movie."

[Dr Maturin]

The Caves of Steel and The Naked Sun are probably the most suitable Isaac Asimov novels for filming.

Well, the former has been filmed at least once.

[Dan Dassow]

Speaking of Asimov, I wouldn't mind a Baley/Olivaw miniseries.

But for a movie adaptation, I wouldn't mind them putting him in all of them.

The Caves of Steel and The Naked Sun are probably the most suitable Isaac Asimov novels for filming.

[Dr Maturin]

Speaking of Asimov, I wouldn't mind a Baley/Olivaw miniseries.

R Daneel Olivaw and he isn't in the original trilogy anyway (if memory serves)

Your memory serves you well. At least it does if my own memory serves...

But for a movie adaptation, I wouldn't mind them putting him in all of them.

[Dan Dassow]

Any trilogy will have to have at least 1 recurring character and the only ones it could possibly be is either Hari Seldon (but he only has small parts in the books) or R Daneel Olivaw and he isn't in the original trilogy anyway (if memory serves)

It could only be told in flashback.

Would love to see it done right as the books are phenomonal.

Since psychohistory is involved, in the case of Hari Seldon, this could be a series of Hari Seldon videos that are played when the event he predicted occurs. R Daneel Olivaw narration would be be told in flashbacks.

Regardless, I doubt that whoever makes this will give the Foundation Series the respect that it deserves.

Dan Dassow

[Righteous Bros]

Any trilogy will have to have at least 1 recurring character and the only ones it could possibly be is either Hari Seldon (but he only has small parts in the books) or R Daneel Olivaw and he isn't in the original trilogy anyway (if memory serves)

It could only be told in flashback.

Would love to see it done right as the books are phenomonal.

[vakie]

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[JoeD80]

Columbia has this now

Apparently due to all the legal issues involving Watchmen, this picture's rights went up for grabs and Columbia had the winning bid. Roland Emmerich is slated to direct and produce along with Michael Wimer.

[JoeD80]

After what I saw them do to I Robot, I cringe at the thought of Foundation being "adapted". I wish they would just say inspired by, and name it something else.

I'm not sure if he is still attached to the project, but apparently the writer of I, Robot (Jeff Vintar) is the one they had at Fox for adapting Foundation as well...