Posted on 11/10/2014 5:07:22 PM PST by EveningStar
The Oscar-nominated "Memento" writer says "everyone would benefit from reading" the sci-fi trilogy
HBO and Warner Bros. TV are teaming to produce a series based on Isaac Asimov's "Foundation" trilogy that will be written and produced by "Interstellar" writer Jonathan Nolan, multiple individuals familiar with the project have told TheWrap.
Nolan, who is already working with HBO on "Westworld," has been quietly developing the project for the last several months. He recently tipped his hand to Indiewire, which asked him, 'what's the one piece of science fiction you truly love that people don't know enough about?'
(Excerpt) Read more at thewrap.com ...
Will it also be about global warming?
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I’m about to commit Sci-Fi heresy:
Years ago I read the Foundation series and thought it was not so great.
I have the book but I’ve never read it.
Read it when I was about 10 and thought it was great.
Tried to read it again 20 years later and was unable to get more than 100 pages in.
From what little I remember of it, I suspect it will not be very well suited to cinema.
Diskworld, Near Space!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Gee, are the Niven heirs unreasonable or Hollywood just that stupid?
Foundation could be good, but not if it’s PC’ed of course. Heck it’s pretty PC anyway if I remember correctly.
Don't you mean Ringworld, Known Space? :)
I thought the Foundation series was not very good either.
LOL!
...and I’d just looked at the book’s cover for the title!
Oh my.
I am just finishing reading the entire 7 book epic! I loved it then I love it now always wanted to see it on the screen.
I think it could work because Asimov has created a universe with strong characters, lots of plot threads, and an underlying mystery.
the idea of a whole planet just for government is interesting
Shh! You’ll give them ideas
Interstellar was not about global warming. They never really never say why the earth is failing other than blight.
The series is a great read but unfortunately its thunder has been stolen. The culmination of the tale spanning eons is... Avatar’s planet Pandora. :\
Saw the movie yesterday, and their was no mention of global warming, wasn’t even hinted at. I found the movie’s themes dealt with science, physics, and human nature, as someone else coined the phrase my “Leftwing Hollywood meter” did not go off once.
Neat. I hope it’s well done and not too lefty agenda-y. I enjoyed reading the Asimov books in my youth — loved the historical scope and the whole notion of trying to manipulate things over centuries and millenia on such a broad scale.
Every liberal trope imaginable was piled one on top of the other into a Tower of Babble.
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