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loved that trilogy when I was in High School—or anyway the first book. the second book slowed down and the third book of the series was forgettable.
It would be tremendously challenging to do but well worth the effort.
That is more lofty than even LOTR.
I am a more passionate fan of the Good Doctor than anything I can think of (Heinlein a close second for reasons I won’t go into here).
I am trying to figure out who would be a good Hari Seldon.
This stuff is really great but it is LONG. I wonder if Apple can respect the original material.
Color me “Idoubtit.”
Can’t even imagine what damage the greedy perverts will do to it.
And who could play The Mule? Let’s see - physically awkward, kind of skinny and dufusy, no one really knew where he came from, but he had an amazing ability to manipulate feeble minds. Can’t quite put my finger on it.....
Loved the original trilogy. Then 20 years later he tried to continue it. Those weren’t so good.
Another book series popular around the time of Foundation was the Lensman series. That would make a decent movie. J. Michael Straczynski, the creator of Babylon 5, was involved in a project to make that movie, but it was just too expensive.
Harry Seldon predicted it would be turned into a series.
I used to get excited at the prospect of classics being turned into TV series. Now I cringe. TV has become porn without the nudity.
OMFG!
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.
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.
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.
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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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.