For those not familiar with the Foundation series:
Wikipedia:
Roland Emmerich the director/producer/writer has the movie rights. The trouble is the books do not translate well to the screen. Also Emmerich directed White House Down which bombed this summer. His new movie Independence Day 2 comes out in 2015.
He also directed 2012 (with John Cusak), Stargate, The Day After Tomorrow, 10,000 BC, Independence Day, and Godzilla.
Back in September Emmerich said,
I'm thinking they should at least do a pilot episode. With a good writer to build up the characters, Emmerich could just worry about any action.
I've read the original trilogy of Foundation 3 times. It is a bit dated in the style but has a great story.
I hope they can figure out something, if not, then pass the rights on to another creative mind.
My dream is watching a Game of Thrones season on HBO and then starting the new Foundation series premiering in spring of 2016.
Wikipedia:
The Foundation series is a science fiction series by Isaac Asimov. There are seven volumes in the Foundation series proper, which in its in-universe chronological order are Prelude to Foundation, Forward the Foundation, Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Second Foundation, Foundation's Edge, and Foundation and Earth.
The premise of the series is that the mathematician Hari Seldon spent his life developing a branch of mathematics known as psychohistory, a concept of mathematical sociology (analogous to mathematical physics). Using the laws of mass action, it can predict the future, but only on a large scale; it is error-prone on a small scale. It works on the principle that the behaviour of a mass of people is predictable if the quantity of this mass is very large (equal to the population of the galaxy, which has a population of quadrillions of humans, inhabiting millions of star systems). The larger the number, the more predictable is the future.
Using these techniques, Seldon foresees the imminent fall of the Galactic Empire, which encompasses the entire Milky Way, and a dark age lasting thirty thousand years before a second great empire arises. Seldon's psychohistory also foresees an alternative where the intermittent period will last only one thousand years. To ensure his vision of a second great empire comes to fruition, Seldon creates two foundations—small, secluded havens of all human knowledge—at "opposite ends of the galaxy".
The focus of the series is on the First Foundation and its attempts to overcome various obstacles during the formation and installation of the Second Empire, all the while being silently guided by the unknown specifics of The Seldon Plan.
The series is best known for the Foundation Trilogy, which comprises the books Foundation, Foundation and Empire, and Second Foundation.
Roland Emmerich the director/producer/writer has the movie rights. The trouble is the books do not translate well to the screen. Also Emmerich directed White House Down which bombed this summer. His new movie Independence Day 2 comes out in 2015.
He also directed 2012 (with John Cusak), Stargate, The Day After Tomorrow, 10,000 BC, Independence Day, and Godzilla.
Back in September Emmerich said,
https://www.blastr.com/2013-9-18/roland-emmerich-wants-do-what-now-asimovs-foundation"We're trying to do it as a big mini-series, but even there you would have to change the story itself and set it in a time when the galaxy has fallen apart -- and then you're pretty much making a TV show with all these characters and playing all the scenes out. You can (do that) and we'll see what happens. We tried so hard (to make it into a movie), honestly, because it's one of my most favorite books. I just love it."
I'm thinking they should at least do a pilot episode. With a good writer to build up the characters, Emmerich could just worry about any action.
I've read the original trilogy of Foundation 3 times. It is a bit dated in the style but has a great story.
I hope they can figure out something, if not, then pass the rights on to another creative mind.
My dream is watching a Game of Thrones season on HBO and then starting the new Foundation series premiering in spring of 2016.