By Rob Bricken in
Miscellaneous, Movies
Wednesday, Mar. 3 2010 @ 9:47AM
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But please, don't stop being afraid. Not only Emmerich's hired the hack who did The Patriot to write the script -- which Emmerich proudly states now has a hero and a villain -- but he wants to do it all in 3-D and motion capture CG. If you hear a faint buzzing sound, that would be Isaac Asimov's corpse rotating and several hundred RPMs in his grave. (Via io9)
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Krakes said:
Not to worry, this is one of those crisis moments that Hari Seldon foresaw and planned for. It will work out. Really. I hope.
kenshiro replied to Krakes:
There's no way Seldon could have planned for the crass commericialization of Hollywood. Obviously the major studios are owned by The Mule, and the second foundation has been crushed.
RunnerX13 said:
Emmerich should have stopped after ID4. But if Foundation does get made, please keep Will Smith out of it.
Can't you just imagine Will Smith running around and screaming that Seldon prepared for all this, and that Seldon will guide them?
Or maybe, in each era, Will Smith can play a different (but equally important) character. Perhaps he can be Hari Seldon himself, and his occasional messages can be light-hearted raps.
FadR said:
Mr. Bricken, it's Time to use your incredible Influence and Powers for the good.
You made Barbie a Nerd, now PLEASE by the Glory of Josh Whedons Cock make the Bad Man Stop.
P.S. connecting a huge Dynamo to the heavy rotating corpse of Isaac Asimov, could probably solve all Energy Issues of the World. Choice is Yours.
FadR said:
Mr. Bricken, it's Time to use your incredible Influence and Powers for the good.
You made Barbie a Nerd, now PLEASE by the Glory of Josh Whedons Cock make the Bad Man Stop.
P.S. connecting a huge Dynamo to the heavy rotating corpse of Isaac Asimov, could probably solve all Energy Issues of the World. Choice is Yours.
J.H. said:
What these fucking Hollywood people don't get is that writers like Asimov and Tollien wrote these things to transcend mere disposable entertainment. These things aren't meant to be filmed but rather are supposed ot be viewed in the theater of the mind's eye.
Fucking Hollywood!
and yes, I LOATHE TLotR movies wholeheartedly... thos were NOT Tolkien, not in the least..
JBurton said:
Guess It matters not that out of all the Emmerich movies the Patriot was written the best.
InterwebHero replied to JBurton:
Not really. It doesn't change the fact that Roland Emmerich is the most unsuitable person on Earth to direct Foundation and if or if not he takes any part in writing it, it will still be terrifyingly awful.
Boyle replied to JBurton:
Ah, The Patriot. One of the few movies made in the past decde that made a character go "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" with a complete lack of irony.
Emmerich has his uses you know.
Zade said:
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fishman2020 said:
Yesterday I was so happy with the news of the Games of Thrones series I didn't think anything could knock me down for the rest of the week... I was even starting to plan a party for the weekend for a few of my nerd friends... Well... this officially has knocked my high spirits down quite a bit... I'm canceling the party to figure out a way to get ahold of Lolland Emmerich to convince him that this is a horrible career move... until then I'll cry a bit, starting.... now.
Brim said:
I don't even understand how you could make a movie out of this. Maybe its just been a while since I read them (will reread now, so some good will come of this) but I don't really see any of this translating particularly well to film.
toxic replied to Brim:
They made films out of Dune, a series that runs for literally 10,000 years or more, and a series where the only character that appears in each book died in the first book, and is in fact a series of clones of the original minor character. Also, the main character turns into a giant sandworm and rules the universe for 30000 years or something. It's been a long time since I read it.
Foundation, at least the parts I read, are fairly filmable, compared to that stuff, and they've made multiple Dune films.
Gasstank said:
What a douche
wanderfarer said:
Happily, Emmerich is now moving ahead with some other movie called Anonymous instead of Foundation. So we're spared... for a little bit.
Unless you're a geek who likes Shakespeare, which is what Anonymous is (kind of) about.*
*In the sense that it's about Shakespeare not being Shakespeare.
Sci-Fi Gene replied to wanderfarer:
Cool! I look forward to the scene where the White House is destroyed by billions of CGI sonnets.
Riven Armor said:
2012 is looking to be Deep Impact...all because the director can't stop himself from making the SAME FREAKING MOVIE every time. (And he gets hired. Huh.)
Not that I would have watched it under new management.
demoncat said:
hopefully by the time Emmerich gets around to doing Foundation that his hold on the rights have expired and Asimov's estate gives the rights to some one more deserving some one who will do the story justice. that and Asimoves corpse rises up and laughs when Emmirch finds out he no longer has the rights. and then bitch slaps him. for even daring to get a hold of foundation.
Super King said:
Who the hell even let Emmerich get the rights?
I would have thought Asimov's family/lawyers/representatives were smarter than this.
But then I remember 'Isaac Asimov's I-Bots'.
And the Roger Corman produced 'Nightfall' starring David Carradine and two women who couldn't act,...oh and a bunch of Indians.
And Will Smiths 'I Robot'.
I guess they're not.
damask said:
don't forget emmerich also directed 10,000 BC and the Day After Tomorrow. i think he's turned the half-ass epic into its own genre. given his m.o., he'll try to put all of the books into one film, which would be the same as trying it with the Lord of the Rings.
on the otherhand, if there are any up-and-coming scifi readers out there, asimov's Foundations books are a good read. he had a very lucid style.
HBCat said:
Every time I think of Asimov movie adaptations I throw up a little. Hollywood took the most filmable Asimov book (The Bicentennial Man - got hero, got villain sort of, got emotional stuff, got fluff, what more do they want???) and turned it into a Robin Williams fest. As for I,Robot and Nightfall they don't even deserve the Asimov association. Fantastic Voyage doesn't count.
Asimov specialised on minimal violence and 'set pieces' and lots of people/robots/multivacs sitting around speaking intelligently and figuring stuff out. Hollywood will never be able to faithfully adapt that. The only person IMHO that could've made an Asimov film was, sadly, Stanley Kubrick.
Mount_Prion said:
"Isaac Asimov's corpse rotating and several hundred RPMs in his grave..."
Actually, Asimov would have probably been totally fine with this. People don't like to remember that the guy was a complete sell-out. At the end of his life, he basically hired other people to write and slapped his name on books so they would sell.
And seeing as how this would have a lot of money behind it, maybe he's whirring with joy.
