Asimov’s Foundation Stands… for Now
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?Roland Emmerich, director of the tremendously stupid but guilty pleasure for many Independence Day, as well as the cinematic abomination that was the U.S. Godzilla, has long optioned Isaac Asimov’s Foundation sci-fi books for a movie. Since the Foundation books are about old scientists who save humanity by manipulating a new dark age over a thousand years and Emmerich makes dumb, loud movies in the vein of a less talented Michael Bay, this sucks. Happily, Emmerich is now moving ahead with some other movie called Anonymous instead of Foundation. So we’re spared… for a little bit.
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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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.