Roland Emmerich doing The Foundation Trilogy

[Alex]

http://www.firstshowing.net/2009/01/16/roland-emmerich-directing-asimovs-foundation-trilogy/

Maybe he will do good by it, but if you'd asked me to name a big movie director most likely to completely ruin an adaptation of The Foundation Trilogy it would have been a tight race between Emmerich and McG.

Sure, it is a movie that could make great use of digital environments, but they're hardly action oriented stories.

[JWBear]

If there was any literary work that I would consider unfilmable, it would be Foundation. It'll be a train wreck!

[Alex]

But can't you just picture the cinematic psychohistorical equations floating around Hari Seldon's head?

Box office gold!

[JWBear]

More like box office pyrite...

[SzczerbiakManiac]

VJWBM—I almost spit out my corn dog.

[Moonliner]

If there was any literary work that I would consider unfilmable, it would be Foundation. It'll be a train wreck!

Unfimable? From what point of view. Visually I don't see any real problems with today's effects wizards. From a story point of view, the fact that you have an entirely new set of characters every few chapters could be problematic to the studio exec/marketing types.

Off hand I can't think of any movies where each act has an entirely different cast (unless you count Sheldon).

I think the biggest issue might be it's perceived lack of originality since many of it's themes have been copied....

Corisant = Trantor, etc....

[Moonliner]

Oh and just to put everone at ease, I just ran across this....

Emmerich is going to film Foundation in 3D, because Avatar showed you can charge more for 3D movies (http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2010/02/11/exclusive-roland-emmerich-plans-foundation-as-3-d-motion-capture-epic/).

*Whew*

I feel better about this already.


Emmerich said he's looking forward to a new challenge at this point in his career. "Probably now all big movies have to be 3-D," he said. "It's not only the effect of 3-D, ['Avatar' has] just shown that if you do a movie in 3-D, you can ask for more money and that's the trick. I think now everybody who does bigger movies has to shoot them in 3-D. I think there's no way around it. I was on the set of 'Avatar' and I saw how it worked and I really thought, 'That's the ultimate way of making movies.' "

[JWBear]

Unfimable? From what point of view. Visually I don't see any real problems with today's effects wizards. From a story point of view, the fact that you have an entirely new set of characters every few chapters could be problematic to the studio exec/marketing types.

Off hand I can't think of any movies where each act has an entirely different cast (unless you count Sheldon).

I think the biggest issue might be it's perceived lack of originality since many of it's themes have been copied....

Corisant = Trantor, etc....

OK... Let me rephrase... I can't see how you could make a film (or films) that is/are faithful to the series and wouldn't confuse the hell out of the majority of the movie going public.

[Tref]

It'll be a train wreck!

Having watched the previews of 2012 I can tell you a train wreck is something Emmerich can handle.


http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z1/Tref_foto/Winnixon.jpg

[Moonliner]

I wonder if it will be like I-Robot where the only similarity to the book was the title.

[JWBear]

I wonder if it will be like I-Robot where the only similarity to the book was the title.

It wouldn't surprise me.

[Moonliner]

Update!

No, I don't have one. I'd like one. I used a little Google-Foo and as far as I can tell this movie seems to be making zero progress. All I could find was word that the movie Roland was supposed to be working on for Sony (Singularity) was put on hold after his last movie bombed at the box office.