Isaac Asimov's Foundation the Movie[s]

[CptStern]

...oh boy

Ex-New Line Cinema founders Bob Shaye and Michael Lynne have moved on to become producers and they've just set up their first project. The two will produce an adaptation of Isaac Asimov's Foundation, an epic sci-fi story that was first published in 1951.

the book is unfilmable imho. I cant see modern audiences following such a convoluted plot line spanning a dozen or so subplots over hundreds of years


http://www.firstshowing.net/2008/07/29/isaac-asimovs-foundation-trilogy-headed-to-the-big-screen/

 

[AJ Rimmer]

Oh god... I seriously doubt this'll turn out good... The books just span so much time and there's no single character that lasts all the way through even one of the books, with the possible exception of the Mule and, I guess, Hari Seldon. They're bound to create some kind of overlapping narrative by changing the story and/or characters in some way.

And we've had so much luck with previous Asimov-films...
*is very angry that his copy of I, Robot has Will Smith on the cover*