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Roland Emmerich Finds A Writer For FOUNDATION...
Merrick here...
Roland Emmerich spoke with ComingSoon.net about 2012 (his forthcoming doomsday orgy), but their conversation ultimately veered towards Roland's slow-moving adaptation of Isaac Asimov's FOUNDATION novels (details HERE). Seems Robert Rodat (who wrote SAVING PRIVATE RYAN and THE PATRIOT) has been brought in to transform Asimov's sprawling saga into something filmable.
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."
...Emmerich told ComingSoon, in an interview which can be found HERE.
Let us reflect for a moment on the strange, even bewildering, union of Emmerich & Asimov...
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is an anti-British punk asshole jerkoff. That is all.
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I had no idea this was happening, now that I do I'm very very sad.
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I'm dying to know what they showed at the con.
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please, no. This is not a good match.
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Maybe Rodat is up to it and this is a dream project for him, but Emmerich... I just don't see it, no matter how hard he'd try.
It's even scarier to me that they see eye-to-eye on it.
If it's a done deal, though, I hope they find some way to make it not horrible and insulting to the source material.
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You're pulling my leg!
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I think the preludes would probably be more filmable than the first book, though the second books Mule story might be good. Ahhhh, they'll cock it up real good I'm sure, but maybe at least people will get to see where Lucas stole the idea for Corruscant.
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Made me think about Dune, and about the Sci-Fi mini-series they made of the first three books. They were pretty good. I think Foundation would make a god series of mini-serieses.
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get over the fact that Saving Private Ryan didnt feature any brits because it took place on Omaha Beach.
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It's gonna be I-robot all over again.
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are not generally a good idea. But they might work in the Foundation movie. Ooooh. Do you think they can get it to tie into the movies I Robot and Bicentenial Man? The Foundation and Robot books all mixed together at the end. I can totally see Will Smith popping out at the end and yelling Damn! or something while Robin Williams looks all weepily at the camera.
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how are they gonna film this series?
the books are as much about ideas as a cohesive story. In fact, the first book is really a collection of stories Asimov wrote over a number of years.
And Emmerich making a movie about ideas?
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It's at least a continuous storyline, but even that, isn't really an action story, it's a lot of people just talking about ideas, so I have no idea how they'd do it.
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Kinda looked like the STAR TREK LOGO OMG GREAT FUCKING NEWS Please post more stories about the greatest movie of all time Star Trek
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Even if Roland *hack* Emmerich some how pulled a miracle out of his ass and did justice to the books, today's audience don't have the brains or the patience for something like this. Today's audiences are mush-headed Ritalin-addicted turnips. If it doesn't have huge 'xplosions, it doesn't matter to them. Why do you think Emmerich has a career in the first place?
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no way to do it justice in a single film
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That's all his movies seem to be.
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Rmember when Emerich told us he was close to making them at the 2006 comicon..that was three years agowhat the fuck is the status of the project when it was announced kurt russel and james spader were interested and there was fan buzz..anyone know whats going on?
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Maybe it didn't.
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I vant a wall of water to destroy some planets while people try to run away...Then, I vant a space tornado to swallow the sun while people try to run away...Then, I vant the entire universe to fall into a black hole and break apart piece by piece while people try to run away...
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Does Emmerich's apocalyptic yearnings know no bounds? Does he watch videos of things imploding before he has sex?
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I vant all the jews exterminated naaao!
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I sat down and read the trilogy this summer and was somewhat un-impressed. I like the idea behind the anthology of spanning almost a thousand years, but the book is really slow and jumps around too much. It also never gives us the end of the 1000 years. I do think in Emmeric's hands with the Patriot guy, a film I despise, it will be a disaster.
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would rather see SNOW CRASH, or SLANT (assuming, of course, that someone else is making it)
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...AICN posts news 12 hours behind everyone else. That is when they aren't days and weeks behind everyone else. Yet, for being slow, they can't seem to spellcheck their stories.
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It will be this one. :^P
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where did you hear ken rusell died?
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let them spend the money on the script and upteen rewrites foundation needs to be a maxi series...it will not work in compressed form
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Thanks for the background info there, buddy.
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...if it's Bret Hart and Jim Neidhart related....DAY ONE.
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should happen on a SG-1/Atlantis level
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cuz if you didnt like it, it sure as shit wasnt asimov's foundation trilogy
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This does not bode well for Foundation. Asimov must be doing the frug in his grave.
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uh, what makes megan fox hot? she is an attention ho for sure (check out this clip as she removes her jacket, while brolin is talking) http://tinyurl.com/lbfs4m
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Hailing frequencies open- AsimovLives, where are you?
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Emmerich is to Asimov as _________ is to ________?let's hear it!
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no disrespect, brother, but "uh, what makes megan fox hot?" she sounds like she's a couple taco short of a combo meal, but what makes her hot? her body and face? or did you mean environmentally? (as in, what made her hot enough to want to take off her coat?)I won't see a movie because of her, but for god sake man, she is hot, right? if that's not hot, what on earth is?
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How about that one?
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Yeah, she's hot but sooo slow with the brain cells. I love the black dude offering to "play sports" with her- great audience member- hilarious stuff.
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Zing!
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The script should focus on Magnifico, and the search for the Second Foundation. The first novel is just backstory. It's mostly vignettes that explain the creation of the Foundation. Easy to do in flashbacks.
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"Very good writer" and "The Patriot" should never appear in the same sentence. Kudos for "Saving Private Ryan" though. He also wrote the brilliant "Fly Away Home" and "Tall Tale." Wow.
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all that needs to be said
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Don't forget the long panoramic battle scene.
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You know you want it.
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Jul 25, 2009 11:43:29 PM CDT
I, ROBOT is considered to be a part of the FOUNDATION series
by yackbacker
Wil Smith as Hari Seldon would be freaky.
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it screamed "look how bright i am, i watched an indy film with depp in it" and i guess it is only us peons that watch youtube, cuz not one fuckin celeb knows who bob stencil is
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Jul 25, 2009 11:46:52 PM CDT
Jesus christ the idea of Will Smith as a brilliant mathematician
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brolin is married to a hottie, diane lane creams fox in both the looks and brains dept shit, brolin creams fox in the fucking looks dept
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...they cast young Jaden Smith as his spunky assistant/sidekick. And they have to cast Keanu Reeves as Salvor Hardin, and Matthew McConaughey (of course). FEH. Fuck this shit.
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Meant to say Matthew McConaughey as Hober Mallow. Don't you see how perfect a match that is???
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I can understand if she's not top of your list, but for the love of goodness, would you kick this out of bed?
http://tinyurl.com/c3wcm2
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Is because she thought she could get high just from watching it. And Bob Stencil is beyond Hunter S. Thompson, so she better check herself.
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that Asimov's Foundation has been on again off again in Hollywood for more than a decade. Hmmm... the fact that Emmerich may be bringing this to the screen is horrifying.
I guess at this point they could give each film in the series to a different hack director to keep it consistent: Let Brett Ratner direct part 2, Joel Schumacher direct part 3 and so on. -
Is this hack allowed to spend millions of studio dollars to make horrible shit?
Can we please boycott 2012 so we dont have to deal with another ball of cat shit mixed with a dash of Rino semen? -
Not that he was a paragon of the industry, but sonuvabitch, he did help Emmerich's sore ass become famous. And now... he's scraping together food stamps outside the local Safeway.
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and blast it with $150 million. He is a connoisseur of destructive money-shots. That's it. 10,000 B.C. is an affront to all grey matter. I hear that they play it at Guantanamo Bay to the detainees. I read that the world's oldest man, who died last week, was flipping channels and caught 10 minutes of it and ceased to live. When they want conjoined twins to separate, they play the movie in the hospital room and marvel at how they rip free from each other and waddle out of the room. And a priest told me that the reason Jesus Christ has not returned is because he waits for us to burn every last copy of the movie and remove it from this Earth.
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actually, Devlin as Leverage going now, which is a huge hit. and I hate to say it, bit it's pretty fun. like a sort of Diet Oceans 11
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I good friend of mine was a HUGE fan of the books.... I dread to think what a die hard backlash would be like..... Mr. Emmerich, you've done a lot of stuff I'm not in to... don't fuck it up!!!
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beer and TB don't mix... 80's cartoon psa!!!!!
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and fucking speling!!!!
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I remember sitting there falling asleep.
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Should've become an HBO series w/ Ian McKellen as Harry Seldon rather than this disgrace of a soon to be film. Fuck you Emmerich for fucking with one of my childhood favorites! All that is needed now is for him to also announce he's directing Dune, The Stand, The Book of Atrix Wolfe, Brave New World, 1984, Enders Game, and that he'll be replacing Del Toro on the Hobbit and he will have completely raped my childhood.
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is the "Uwe Boll" of CGI romp films.
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I was dreading clicking on this link and seeing the dreaded words Kurtzman & Orci staring back at me.
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I hate Transformers 1 (haven't seen 2)as much as anyone but to call them bottom of the barrel is going a little far. And MI3 wasn't that bad either.
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This film needs a director who focuses more of his time on dialogue and acting rather than one whose only goal is to see how much CGI he can cram into a given scene.
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with all the novels and short stories involved. Even Caves of Steel and Naked Sun were both part of the timeline leading up to Foundation.
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SO what's the long wait? I mean Emmerich !? You gotta be kidding, there is no way he could make a serious good film adaption - especially of a classic like Foundation. He will totally trash the book, we know this even before they film a single frame.
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Roland Emmerich is the director attatched to direct an adaptation of Isaac Asimov's Foundation??? ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME????? YOU GOT TO BE FUCKIGN KIDDING ME!!!!!Waht the fuck is this bullshit? What the fuck is going on?? What fuck, man!!! Fucking shit!!! THIS IS THE WORST FUCKIGN SHIT I HAVE HEARD ALL MONTH!!! FUCKING SHIT, MAN!!!What the fuck is wrong with Holylwood? WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH HOLYWOOD??? Why they keep on fucking up any work of Asimov into a fuckiogn horrible retard mvoies done by stupid hacks staring fucking commercial ass-kissing stars? Fuck this shit, man! FUCK THIS SHIT!! Aparently, The Bicentennial Man and I Robot were not enough to piss and shit on Isaac Asimov's name! Oh now! Now they have to take anothe dump, courtesy of Roland Emmerich. What's next? Michael Bay directs The Caves Of Steel? Jar Jar Abrams for The End Of Eternity? McG for Nightfall? Fucking shit, man!!!! Fucking ass!!!
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Its a sad statement on my life when the first time I saw Qualls, I thought that guy looks like perfect fit for Asimov's Mule.
For everyone who can't be bothered to Google this up, basically the Mule is a mutant with mind controling powers. Kind of a Charles Xavier minus the wheelchair and peace and love stuff. -
He wrote Pearl Harbor, didn't he? Man, he's a hack magnet. First Michael Bay, now Roland Emmerich.I can see it now: Foundation, from the writer of Pearl Harbor and the director of ID4, Godzilla, The Day After Tomorrow and 10,000BC.Fucking ass, man!
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Robert Rodat didn't wrote Pearl Harbor. It was that other incompetent idiot who also wrote the science fiction screenplay Braveheart. Certainly that script was ment to be one of those alternative history stories, not a real historical story.
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http://www.stevemachuca.com/Front%20Invite.jpg
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try it without the space in Front
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and I actually enjoyed the Patriot, but there's literally no way this can end well.
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Starring Will Smith. If you ask me, Old Boy was overrated. This remake will become the most highly watched tale of sister fucking ever to be seen on the big screen. I think Amityville Horror part 2 is number 2 right now, I could be wrong.
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I think his family sold guns or steel or something to the Nazi's during WW2. Also, he likes it from behind and wears man-pads. Friends of mine worked on 10 000 BC. They say they had to play Rock-Paper-Scissors to decide who would wash the stains from his director's chair. Germans are funny.
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...then, according to Google, linking to an old newspaper piece, the Emmerichs owned a huge German iron works plant, which did supply the Nazis. Wow, that's fucked up.
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believe me I see where you are going with this but you are wrong - just wrong. Been a while since I read the books but I don't remember the mule being physically unusual, just an ordinary bloke really.... Maybe I'm wrong.
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there's still the little matter of EMMERICH DIRECTING.
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Nope, the Mule was kind of messed up.
From wikipedia-
"Physically, the Mule is a freak, with a long nose (at least three inches) tightly stretched facial skin, and a spindly body. He weighs between 100 and 120 pounds (45 to 54 kg), and is 5'8" (1.73m) tall[citation needed]. His joints jut out from his diminutive musculature. The Mule's meagerness is glandular and untreatable. Furthermore, his limbs meet at awkward angles, giving the general impression of a scarecrow assembled poorly. His eyes are described as deep brown and perpetually sad."
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As much as I like the Foundation series, I really can't see this being any good. While the series is epic in scope, its 95% people talking. Asimov was never good at writing action.
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is a perfect example of flashback. Something best shown and not told. Most of the first novel is Asimov's recreation of the fall of the Roman Empire on a galactic scale, right to a general Belasarius. The best approach IMHO is to write the script as a chess match between Preem Palver (First Speaker of the Second Foundation) and Magnifico (the Mule). Most of the rest of the books is best shown, not told.
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posted on dvdvision.fr ? Why is this not news on this site ?
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HE SHOULD STAY THE FUCK AWAY FROM THIS PROJECT!
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I didn’t realize he was directing this – wow, talk about a round hole, square peg situation. Granted, I read the book a long time ago, but I don’t recall a sequence which would allow for some good tidal porn, which we all now is required for an Emmerich film (but I will guiltily admit, he gives good destruction). Emmerich would be better suited to take a crack at Footfall, or Lucifer’s Hammer. There is still a lot of good classic sci-fi out there to be tapped (or perverted as in the case of I, Robot). I’m still curious about the long rumored Ender’s Game adaptation, and I think Spielberg was at one point producing Rendezvous with Rama. Personally, I would like to see somebody take a crack at the Hyperion series, at least the first two books, and while I will admit to being highly entertained by Verhoven’s version, I would love somebody to remake Starship Troopers and make it a more faithful version. Unfortunately, Americans have become so dim-witted that Transformers 2 makes 400 million, while a really smart well made science fiction film would probably tank – people just don’t want to think anymore.
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I can see the conversation between writer Rodat and Emmerich: "So Robert, verr ist ze scene ver ze world blowz up? You must write zat scene wiz lotz of EXPLOZIONZ, ya?" Rodat: "Um, Roland, this is serious science fiction, with character development and.." Emmerich: "EXPLOOOZIONS, YA? It's ze epic space explozions - ze worlds on fire, ya? Zat ist ze DRAMA!"
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Asimov's novels Are what made me understand that sci-fi could be much more than lightsabers and transporters, and there's no fucking way Hollywood is going to make a sci-fi movie without lots and lots of explosions and lasers. They are going to turn this into some kind of action adventure like I,Robot and totally miss the point of the stories to begin with.
A better idea would be to do the Robot Novels. They cleverly mix sci-fi with murder mysteries. These would be much more palatable to mainstream audiences and might pave the way for Foundation to follow, maybe include a cameo by Daneel now and then so audiences understand the connection. -
...a CGI cousin of Golem's. It's a given.
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... uses writers? Get the f*ck out of here!
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The Foundation series of novels are huuuuge sellers in arabic countrys. Foundation is used has propaganda materila for all you Hezbollah nutters and all mujadaheen fighters in Iraq.
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The Foundation series cannot possibly be done justice in a single film - not even in a trilogy. It needs a high budget 12 hour mini series from a decent director, with HBO producing and a stated intent to produce a major television event that's a cross between V and Band of Brothers in terms of consumer interest and spectacle.....and that isn't going to happen. Beyond that, the story itself isn't suited to the ordinary viewer - you have to be a serious sci-fi fan to engage with it. No mass dumbass appeal = no mass profit potential = no way in fuck it's going to be done well in the first place.
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...is seriously pissing me off. Every time I come on the site I inadvertantly mouse over a tiny bit of it as it's too close to the address bar and then down it comes, covering all the new stories. It's making my daily visit here much less pleasurable. Just thought I'd share...
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I hate this idea more and more. Large parts of these books would be horribly boring on film as they are just (necessary) conversation. But somehow stupid action movie guy is directing them?
Without a doubt this will turn into another typical Hollywood shitfest like I,Robot. Or worse it will be long and boring like Contact and sully what was an excellent book. Hollywood can't do real sci-fi. -
...Emmerich/Asimov is the worst pairing since DeVito & Schwarzenegger.
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The Mule knows Kung-Fu
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Jul 26, 2009 2:09:11 PM CDT
With 2012 Roland has clearly hit the storytelling limits of blow
by ar42
I mean, seriously, where can he go from continental shearing? With Foundation, he has an entire galaxy of planets to destroy one by one, as the "Fall" of the Galactic Empire causes them each to blow up in excitingly catastrophic ways, one by one. The "Foundation," led by perhaps Shia LeBouf, will fly around in their awesome Foundationator spaceship and save people at the last minute, to start a new race of people on the one remaining habitable planet... a place that will one day be known as... EARTH. Except they have to kill off the dinosaurs first before they can settle there, probably with slow-motion nukes. You heard it here first, people.
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Although he may also have hit the storytelling limits of blow, based on how coherent 2012 turns out to be.
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I was talking about The Patriot. Saving Private Ryan is one of my favourites. The Patriot is full of mendacious nonsense. Thanks for your concern, though.
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With Earth????? What is the issue he seems to have that he destroys the world on several occassions? Is he jaded with humanity? Has he been slighted by the citizens of the world.
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This is not gonna Roland's next project. His next will be "Big Bang: The Movie", which will round up his TOTAL FUCKING DESTRUCTION saga
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Gawd.....uh.
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This isn't like screwing up a comic book movie either. Emmerich is going to be screwing up some of the most sacred sci-fi material ever written. I hope the Asmiov estate got a very large check for this, so at least someone wins. If the movie is done right it would be really really boring. It would not be a summer blockbuster. I cannot see a studio spening $100 million+ to shoot something like this. Roland, no one is going to forgive you for this one.
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So, the Foundation survivors are the Stargate aliens?
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ive fucked real skanks in my time but i couldnt see spending more than 10 minutes with her otherwise on the other hand, i would spend days worshiping at dianne lane's feet if brolin ever really cheats on her, ill kick his ass
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I think so... I'm expecting bad outfits, bad acting, bad set designs, and I was going to say cheesy action scenes but the fact that it will most likely have plentiful action sequences is disturbing enough really. Remember, Roland: Violence is the last refuge!
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Now that's a proper dame. In Cotton Club, she shows her breasts. God bless you, Francis Ford Coppola.Has Megan Fox ever got really naked for a role? I don't think so. She's just a tease! Fuck's sake, what an amateur!
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"will it be Battleship Earth bad?"You even doubt??
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Jul 26, 2009 6:20:07 PM CDT
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetant. -Isaac Asimov
by redjester
Actually, he'll probably change that quote to "Violence is the only refuge of the competant." Fucking blowhard...
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No, I didn't doubt until I heard that the scribe from Saving Private Ryan (who also is apparently a huge Asimov fan) was penning this... I guess I'm hoping an utterly brilliant script outweighs the lack of directing it will most certainly have. So what I'm saying is that I give it a 1% chance of not completely sucking lol...
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http://tinyurl.com/kqzv4r
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Why don't they film Caves of Steel and Robots of Dawn instead? A Foundation movie would be a disaster in the hands of good film makers, not to mention what these guys will do to it.
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mo betta movie
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Need more giant robot balls. And lens flares.
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Emmerich won't be able to do justice to the books. He can't even do justice to his original scripts. Foundation ain't popcorn stuff.
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I have a few problems, first is the fact that fanboys cum all over the series like its the second coming. Its a good story, don't get me wrong, but it didn't change my world. Second, the time jumping gets riddiculous at times. I do enjoy anthologies which what this really is. My problem is that we never really get to know any of these characters. The characters we get to know the most is through the Mule storyline and even then we time jump again. Third, some of the stories are not action packed which is ok, but it would have been nice to have on rip roaring adventure. Most if not all of the stories end with the Foundation people are some threat which they overcome, because the villains ate to stupid to realize the obvious. Would have killed him to actually write about the space battles instead focusing on people trapped talking about how they are going to win or won the battle. Lastly, you never get to the 1,000 year mark. You stop at 500 years and that is the end. It maybe meaningless for some people, but if you are going to do a story that sets up the premise that civilization will need a 1,000 years to be saved, don't stop mid-way through. I don't mean to piss all over the story, it is epic in its own way, but for a movie it's going to suck if we got every good director, actor and screenwriter to work on it. No one, really wants to see talking for 2 and half hours for a space epic. It may sound like people have ADD, but a ton of people sat through long films like Star Wars, LOTR and Harry Potter.
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Complaining about Asimov giving us the second 500 years is kinda moot isn't it? Besides the fact that he died, Galaxia was going to make the Foundations null and void anyway, the preview for year 1000 was Gaia and Daneel's new Solarian body.
I really didn't enjoy the new Foundation trilogy much, but the extra Robot novels were quite good, I'd love to see a Caliban trilogy after the Robot Novels get made into films, but alas...
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how to make a good film. All of his films contain poorly written stories that are highly predictable and gratuitously over the top.
10,000 BC is one piece of shit that springs to mind.
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Jul 27, 2009 3:27:28 AM CDT
Still have not forgiven those fuckers for GODZILLA!!!
by the green gargantua
ARRRRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHH
I shall boil eternally in hatred for this reason. Until a reboot occurs and it gets done right by someone with talent or I am supplied with a new director to hate on due to another butchering hack job. -
how can he know Asimov.
I will get stoned and watch 2012 tho, but I will sneak in. -
Emmerich is certainly an entertaining director if you want goofy fun, but there's nothing in his previous work to suggest that his adaptation of the Foundation trilogy would do anything else except suck gigantic amounts of ass.
As for the guy who wrote RYAN and THE PATRIOT, i'm sorry but RYAN was much overrated as a film and there was little memorable in the script. THE PATRIOT, on the other hand, was memorable for being really fucking shitty.
There's plenty of folk in Hollywood who would do a good job of the Foundation trilogy, including Ron Moore and Damon Lindelhof (there's strong parallals between the Dharma initiative and the Second Foundation). But these two jokers? Fucking forget it. After the mediocre I Robot, Asimov's classic deserves better than this shit. -
A Fantastic Voyage or Innerspace remake?
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If the script tells the story from the point of view of Hari Selden running the numbers for his psychohistory predictions and continually coming up with a losing hand, the movie could show the violent results of the simulation graphically. Likewise, the Second Foundation folks could use their own methods of seeing the results of current trends, and the movie could show those graphically as well.
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What destruction are you talking about? If you mean the complete and utter fall of galactic civilization into pre-FTL "barbarism", but that's economic destruction, not planets blowing up all over the universe. I think SimCity already has simulations like that covered pretty well no need for Roland to film them.
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No good can come of this.
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It was a BBC radio drama series, and it was done really well. Of course, like the movie will be, it had to condensed. I like the books, but let's be honest: it really doesn't have an obvious dramatic structure with a single protagonist, that can be adapted to a film. A good screenwriter will need to do a lot of cutting from the original and pretty much invent his own dramatic structure and pick a protagonist to follow throughout the movie, onto the basic premise.
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...that I think Steve Kloves, who has done yeoman's work adapting Rowling's Harry Potter books, would be a perfect fit to adapt Asimov's Foundation novels.
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Roland Emmerich is a one tune filmmaker. He'll ruin this tale. I don't think he'll know what to do with it besides the pazzazz of sfx. He's the wrong director for this. Couldn't he simply produce the pic than direct it?
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Roland Emmerich.
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And not in a good way like Avatar.
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I love the first three books so hard, I would ONLY trust Cameron or Boyle with them. WHY is emmerich doing this?? Could somebody tell me of even 1 big 'splosion scene in the first book? Unless the Anachreon's taking over the other kingdoms gets overblown, but that would be fuckin' stupid.
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those books are about politics and history. Told from multiple characters points of views. And there is (I think) SIX of them. HOW THE FUCK is Roland Emmerich even allowed near that? This requires a Lord of the Rings style project..if at all. Leave the damn books alone Emmerich just heard "Galactic Empire falling? Someone predicting it? Sounds like a disaster movie to me!"
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dead on buddy
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