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Apple Lands Isaac Asimov ‘Foundation’ TV Series From David Goyer & Josh Friedman
Deadline | Hollywood ^
| April 10, 2018
| Mike Fleming Jr and Nellie Andreeva
Posted on 04/10/2018 2:14:12 PM PDT by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar
I read the Foundation series in college. At the time, I really liked it. Now I realize its a big love letter to Big Government.
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posted on
04/10/2018 3:11:32 PM PDT
by
rbg81
(Truth is stranger than fiction)
To: freedumb2003
No doubt the foundation will be made up of liberals
lead by Hillary Seldon who can compute the future
course of humanity.
Frightening isn’t it.
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posted on
04/10/2018 3:14:25 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: EveningStar
Hopefully, Disney hasn’t copyrighted the phrase,”Galactic Empire”, since in the Asimov novels, the small group of rebels was trying to reestablish a Galactic Empire, which was called by that name. Asimov’s model was the Roman Empire, rather than the Third Reich.
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posted on
04/10/2018 3:15:55 PM PDT
by
jmcenanly
("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
To: PlateOfShrimp
I do believe you are onto something....
:-)
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posted on
04/10/2018 3:16:53 PM PDT
by
Zathras
To: Conan the Librarian
End of Eternity is the only one I have not read.
Perhaps on a future vacation!
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posted on
04/10/2018 3:18:57 PM PDT
by
Zathras
To: EveningStar
A TV series is the only way to make this work. The books are long and detailed. Maybe a 10-13 episodes first season for the first book and then the same for the next book, and a repeat for the third.
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posted on
04/10/2018 3:27:23 PM PDT
by
packrat35
(Pelosi is only on loan to the world from Satan. Hopefully he will soon want his baby killer back)
To: EveningStar
I don’t understand the Apple connection. Is the project destined to be hosted on Netflix?
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posted on
04/10/2018 3:43:04 PM PDT
by
Company Man
(SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED)
To: EveningStar
Foundation is full of jibber jabber.
To: Zathras
After reading all three it occurred to me that Harri Seldon could probably be the Robot president Stephen Byerley. Tying the foundation series to the i robot series.
All rooted from the same imagination.
I’d love to see it. Shame it’s on Apple.
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posted on
04/10/2018 3:57:24 PM PDT
by
Samurai_Jack
(War is cruelty, there is no use trying to reform it; the crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.)
To: EveningStar
I thought it was a relatively boring series of novels - only important now for historical reasons and the impact it had on the genre.
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posted on
04/10/2018 4:35:57 PM PDT
by
vladimir998
(Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
To: Vaquero
I also loved the trilogy and disliked his fourth book.
felt like he was trying to suck a few more dollars out of it.
within the past couple of years I attempted to reread the trilogy. I found that it was not particularly interesting. What was fascinating and new at 18 paled with age for me.
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posted on
04/10/2018 4:42:12 PM PDT
by
Chickensoup
(Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
To: EveningStar
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posted on
04/10/2018 4:43:02 PM PDT
by
dadfly
To: EveningStar
Will The Mule be Gay? Or Harry Seldon?
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posted on
04/10/2018 4:47:17 PM PDT
by
Alas Babylon!
(If white privilege is real, why do we have millions of poor white people?)
To: EveningStar
Enjoyed the original series, but never bought into the psychohistory concept - people are just too random for statistical analysis to predict what they will do next week, let alone in hundreds of years.
The books are seriously dated - will need a lot of sprucing up to make a good series, but it’s possible. Probably will include bunches of homos and trannies, which would ruin it for me.
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posted on
04/10/2018 6:30:48 PM PDT
by
Some Fat Guy in L.A.
(Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
To: EveningStar; big'ol_freeper; Impy; SevenofNine; Cletus.D.Yokel; Rummyfan; Liberty Valance; ...
Never underestimate the dead, solid certainty of today's liberal loony left coast going all out in making a friggin' mess when they make a 'syfi' film out of any thing from the Golden Age of Science Fiction!
Think what they did to Bob Heinlein's Staship Troopers and that horrible Keanu Reeves reboot of the great 1951 film The Day the Earth Stood Still--
Not to mention that huge pile of steaming manure they have the gall to call "Star Trek: Discovery"
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posted on
04/10/2018 8:22:07 PM PDT
by
Bender2
("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
To: Bender2
You are only so kind because you never saw the so-called “Issac Asimov’s Night Fall” movie.
Beyond any question the absolute worst adaptation of the printed word to the silver screen.
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posted on
04/10/2018 8:45:05 PM PDT
by
null and void
("We don't let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns?" ~ Joseph Stalin)
To: PlateOfShrimp
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posted on
04/10/2018 8:46:54 PM PDT
by
null and void
("We don't let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns?" ~ Joseph Stalin)
To: dirtboy
The BBC made a pretty good, 8-hour radio drama out of the first three books, back in the 70s. A talky series works well in a talky medium, though that’s no guarantee it translates well to a visual one.
Personally, I’d like to see them tackle the Lije Baley/Daneel Olivaw novels for TV.
To: RansomOttawa
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posted on
04/10/2018 8:50:30 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: EveningStar; ~Kim4VRWC's~; 1234; 5thGenTexan; AbolishCSEU; Abundy; Action-America; acoulterfan; ...
Apple snags Asimovs Foundation series for a TV series for AppleTV. PING!
Apple Gets Isaac Asimovs Foundation TV Series Ping!
If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.
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posted on
04/11/2018 1:02:10 AM PDT
by
Swordmaker
(My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you racist, bigot!)
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