Roland Emmerich doing The Foundation Trilogy
 

http://www.firstshowing.net/2009/01/...ation-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.

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

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

Box office gold!

More like box office pyrite...

VJWBM—I almost spit out my corn dog.

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....

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.

*Whew*

I feel better about this already.

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.

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

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