Apple Gets Isaac Asimov’s Foundation TV Series Ping!
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Posted on 04/10/2018 2:14:12 PM PDT by EveningStar
In a competitive situation, Apple has nabbed a TV series adaptation of Foundation, the seminal Isaac Asimov science fiction novel trilogy. The project, from Skydance Television, has been put in development for straight-to-series consideration...
Originally published as a short story series in Astounding Magazine in 1942, Asimov’s Foundation is the complex saga of humans scattered on planets throughout the galaxy, all living under the rule of the Galactic Empire...
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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.
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.
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.
I do believe you are onto something....
:-)
End of Eternity is the only one I have not read.
Perhaps on a future vacation!
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.
I don’t understand the Apple connection. Is the project destined to be hosted on Netflix?
Foundation is full of jibber jabber.
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.
I thought it was a relatively boring series of novels - only important now for historical reasons and the impact it had on the genre.
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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Will The Mule be Gay? Or Harry Seldon?
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.
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"
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.
You be evil.
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.
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