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...