Roland Emmerich to completely ruin Asimov's Foundation
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True. And I think, in the end, that Asimov himself would have been pleased with the film. (Ellison, however, was probably rolling in his own bile.) It's rather easy to see how Proyas' I, Robot fits into the Robots/Foundation timeline; the robotic uprising in the film turns Earth against robots (which explains the bias in The Caves of Steel a few thousand years later), but the Spacers needed the robots to terraform their colony worlds, hence they learned to live with them.
I just don't see the film potential in the early installments. All the stories in the first five books involve people talking about a problem for a while and then learning that Hari Seldon solved it years ago. It works as a short story; I'm not sure it'd work as a film. Especially a big-budget film, which this will probably be.
I don't think much reworking of Empire would be required, though. You'd just have to show the awesome space battles that Asimov doesn't deal with.
I'd love to see Riose on screen. And Arkady Darell, but that might just be my teenage self remembering her legs on Michael Whelan's cover for Second Foundation.
Oh, yeah, Michael Whelan's cover of Second Foundation...
Yeah, I had teenage fantasies over those legs...
Yeah, I had teenage fantasies over those legs...
The original three volumes were great collections of classic sf novellas and short stories.
Certainly Asimov is not going to be offended by whatever they do. Hope his heirs are being paid very well.
Certainly Asimov is not going to be offended by whatever they do. Hope his heirs are being paid very well.