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.
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.
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. :\
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.
I will always remember the Mule, Dors Venabili, and of course Hari Seldon. I read his Robot, Foundation, and Empire novels in college and really enjoyed them.
To each his own concerning their appreciation of the “Foundation” books from Asimov.
Personally, I find it difficult to imagine this “series” translated into a movie format, but I welcome the attempt and wish them the best of luck.
It will be very interesting to see how this is translated to film. I sincerely hope it doesn’t end like “Battlefield Earth”, which is the absolute worst translation from book to film that I have ever witnessed.
It IS a dull read. Only when you get to the character of “The Mule” does it have anything interesting.
I can easily see this becoming a television series, but heck, they had better do something interesting to keep an audience. I, for sure, would check it out.
The original Foundation was a grand concept back in the day but it would come across to today’s readers as dated and old fashioned - there are no steamy sex scenes, homos, or racial elements, no cell phones, the good guys are generally good and the bad guys bad, and global warming never comes up. The central concept - that smart people can predict and plan for the future through mathematical analysis, never seemed likely to me (at least to the extent it is carried out in the books) - things change too fast even in our time. I liked the books back when I first read them but I am having trouble picturing a movie or series based on them - don’t think I would take the time to watch.
If they stick to the books, it could be great.
If they try to preach about the liberal cause du jour, it will be crap and a financial disaster to boot.
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