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Posts with tag: isaac-asimov | Return to FantasySFBlog.com Homepage Roland Emmerich Talks Asimov's Foundation Sci Fi Wire reports that Roland Emmerich (2010) will direct the film version of Isaac Asimov's Foundation trilogy. And he promises not to ruin it. Emmerich says the challenge facing him and screenwriter Robert Rodat (Saving Private Ryan) is finding a throughline for the film. "There's not one character going through, so Bob Rodat came to me and said, 'I'm like a fanatic reader of ... Foundation,' and I ... talked with him. ... He said, 'We have to consolidate the characters.' And that's what we did, and that's what's worked really, really well in the context. And I think that if Asimov ... would have ... conceived this as a science fiction trilogy or series from the very beginning, he would have done that, too. But he didn't. ... I think in spirit [the movie is] totally Foundation, but it has consolidated characters which go through the three movies."Emmerich said that he knows fans of Asimov hated the film version of I, Robot and that he is respectful of the material. He says he's a total sf geek and has always preferred science fiction movies to disaster movies (which he is most famous for). We'll be interested to see what Emmerich comes up with. Posted on October 14, 2009 Permalink | Subscribe | | | Comments (View) Variety reports that Roland Emmerich is being given the opportunity to direct a film based on Isaac Asimov's Foundation after Columbia won screen rights to the film in an auction.
Emmerich and his Centropolis partner Michael Wimer will produce the film. The deal was mid six-figures against low seven figures.Emmerich also has a film that's supposed to be coming out this summer. It's the mega disaster movie, 2012, which will be out July, 2009. Posted on January 16, 2009 Permalink | Subscribe | | | Comments (View) |
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