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...
(Excerpt) Read more at deadline.com ...
So, if you stopped at the original trilogy, you were way ahead of the game.
Bingo. They sucked, in fact.
I’ve long advocated those should be made. Now with CGI, it’s possible. Another book into movie I’ll want to see made is Heinlein’s "Have Space Suit, Will Travel”. It’s got everything. Kip, near future all American boy (they can make him black for all I care), who wins a surplus Spacesuit in a contest which he refurbishes and imagines he can talk to, young 12 year old girl STEM genius in trouble called Peewee, kidnapping Wormfaced, people-eating, enemy aliens with evil fellow-traveling human henchmen, heroic good Alien "Mother Thing" who communicates in trilling song that is a silly-putty look-alike, taken to the moon in a literal flying saucer, then escaping, embarking on an almost successful chase across 60 km of moon surface in just two incompatible space suits to Tombaugh Station with insufficient O2 for the three of them, re-captured just as they are staggering to the airlock of Tombaugh and hijacked at high G to Pluto, of all places, then another heroic escape effort, followed by an excursion in the most hostile environment to place a dead and frozen Mother Thing’s beacon out in near absolute zero, Kip then gets there, set’s beacon, and collapses to freeze himself, only to wake up to find himself out in the lesser Megallanic Cloud, looking at the Milky Way and Greater Megallenic Cloud, healing from having frozen to death, and is NOW representing the whole human race on trial for ITS survival along with the Wormfaces under a charge of violence and savagery before the gathered civilizations of three Galaxies! Yup! A rollicking Space Opera if there ever was one!
Nope, on AppleTV & iTunes streaming video. This will be Apple’s third or fourth original content effort.
POTD!
“Starship Troopers” was ok (at least it was when I was younger, I haven’t seen it ages). Co-ed showers.
Of course I never read the novel so I have no basis to slam it as a poor adaptation. Wikipedia says they basically took an unrelated script and slapped the “Starship Troopers” brand on it.
Little doubt that it will be dripping with political correctness, special groups, and homos once crappie gets done with it.
Yeah Bender…ST Discovery was just an incredible leftistfest. I was able to watch the season without paying somehow? (I would not…could not…give that CBS cable network a dime) I did watch and regretted it but felt it was my duty as a ST fan to give it at least 1 season. Beside the Marxist-queer-racebaiting there was the whole texture of the cinematography that was just wrong…the science was just wrong…the Klingons were WAY-wrong.(how could these animals be a spacefaring race? And you could see where their eyes and nostrils terminated And makeup started).
Hopefully CBS’s attempt at cable networking has failed and they lose their shirts on it.
Was rather amazed that you, apparently close to my 70-years of age, found the original 1951 The Day The Earth Stood Still film was "commie propaganda, pure and simple" in any way, form or fashion.
So, went to you FR Homepage and read this: "As a shop steward, business agent and labor organizer I bought into all the mythologies of the left, and then one evening in the early 1980's I had an epiphany when a visiting professor from East Germany told me and a number of friends at a party for the SEIU that all the guys in the Solidarity Labor Union should be marched in front of firing squads and shot. And from the that night on it became more and more clear to me that lefties make a lot of noise, but they really don't care about working people at all."
I cannot recall any day in my life when I was not a Conservative Republican, especially after I started reading Robert A. Heinlein with his 1957 novel Citizen of the Galaxy when I was 10-years of age.
Now, answer me this, if you say you knew the true truth of Pravda from within and then without, how can you ever say that the plot of The Day The Earth Stood Still was Communist propaganda?
I grew up in the 1950s and as I remember from those days, the film was very accurate in portraying what the general feeling was about the Soviet Union at the time and a realistic look at just how the politicians and general public of that day and age would most likely react to Klaatu and friend landing a flying saucer in DC--
Thusly, your call of "commie propaganda," in my humble opinion, is pure and simply wrong. Yet I would like to hear just exactly how you came to that belief?
Gadzooks, Imp!
Not only have you missed a fantastic read, you got Bob Heinlein shaking his head up in Science-Fiction Heaven at your tragic mistake.
Starship Troopers is without doubt a core read for any Conservative and if you cannot afford buying a used copy off Amazon, let me know and I'll mail you a paperback copy.
When this show is released the wife has already stated we “WILL” be getting Apple TV so we can see it.
She is a HUGE fan of the books as am I.
AND, while you may consider this “Fantasy” rather than Sci-Fi, they made a miserable mess out of “A Wrinkle in Time” as well!
Well Said, Bender! :-)
Agree with you on "Star Trek: Discovery" being a total waste of time and effort but it appears that there will be a second season and I am sad to report that "Hell on Wheels" actor Anson Mount has been set to play Captain Christopher Pike of the U.S.S. Enterprise. I have always liked Anson as an actor and his having said he was proud to have his great-great-great grandfather a Confederate cavalry colonel in the Civil War, I felt he may have a conservative outlook politically.
So, that remains to be seen but I do so wish they would have taken the route of making a prequel "Star Trek" series that accurately reflected 10 year before Kirk and Spock instead of that manure pile that they did served up.
Hell, even a lefty like Seth MacFarlane can get it "Star Trek" right with "The Orville" being more "Star Trek" that any of the current CBS fare.
Not a fan of "Fantasy," nor A Wrinkle in Time or even Bob Heinlein's 1963 Glory Road fantasy effort. It was my least favorite read of his-
So, while I shall not be seeing Oprah's A Wrinkle in Time, I bow to your judgement of it.
Well, Hollywood’s adaptation of Starship Troopers was terrible, the adaptation of The Puppet Masters was forgettable, and the adaptation of Asimov’s Nightfall was a crime against humanity. So color me skeptical.
Hahaha! Priceless!
Virtually none of the characters are sympathetically portrayed except for Helen Benson, her son, and the bogus "Einstein" Barnhardt. (Einstein, not coincidentally, a famous leftist who could never bestir himself to so much as mildly criticize Stalin for his crimes against humanity.) Klaatu's desire to go among the American people to understand their "unreasoning suspicions and attitudes," is pure Soviet era agitprop, suggesting by slimey insinuation that the communist conspiracy against America was the result of "unreasoning" paranoia.
Apparently, you've bought into that nonsense.
But the truth is, there was no "red scare" and there was no communist "witch hunt." McCarthy was right. The OSS, (later CIA) and State Department were thoroughly infiltrated with communists, and the then mainstream American belief that the Soviet Union was an implacable enemy bending its nearly every resource toward our destruction was motivated by realism, not fear.
Contemporaneous KGB documents of the time and throughout the Cold War referred to America as "The Main Enemy." Against this backdrop the film, from a Hollywood already dominated by Dalton Trumbo and The Hollywood Ten and their ilk, turned the thoroughly justified distrust of the times into countless metaphors of American "paranoia."
Your claim that the fictional US administration's response to Klaatu is a realistic view of how US politicians and civilians would have reacted to the landing of a flying saucer is preposterous. Americans have welcomed strangers from other places into their hearts, homes, and nation more warmly than any other people.
But even if it were not so, the unprovoked attack on Klaatu that opens the movie would be idiotic as a matter of self-preservation, something that US military and political leaders would clearly have understood, and no US soldier would have fired on even a perceived enemy without direct orders to do so.
From the moment he steps off the ship, Klaatu is attacked by brutal, unthinking idiots, a staple product of 50's science fiction that has exactly zero relationship to a US military that smashed totalitarian dictatorships and kept the faith of American liberty despite fecklessness and outright backstabbing by politicians--usually leftists--for over forty years of protracted conflict. He is derided by people who don't know him and murdered in the street. If this is the view of America that your conservatism raised you with, I'm glad I came to the cause as a convert, because it's 100% BS.
His closing speech is a model of anti-American propaganda, which refers to the struggle between human freedom and communist enslavement as a "petty squabble." It's not surprising that he thinks that, since the solution he and his pathetic kind have chosen is not the liberating engagement of free peoples in mutual interest, trade, and contracts, but rather, the complete subordination of their own government to a legion of mindless, all-powerful robots.
Gort is kewl to a 10 year old, but if you've lived as long as you say you have, you ought to find the philosophy that created him--even a fictional one--to be terrifying, because he's an instrument of oppression and murder, and Klaatu tells us that our only future in the universe is in bending the knee to his overlordship.
No thanks.
Agree!
I remember the completely forgettable SciFi doing of Felipe José Farmer’s River Word! Just horrible!
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