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    Image of reddingofish reddingofish
    10/12/09

    In reply to Director Emmerich Explains The Character(s) Of Foundation
    If he sets it in present day Earth I will kill myself.
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    10/12/09

    In reply to Director Emmerich Explains The Character(s) Of Foundation
    If Foundation can't be a cable series then please leave it alone.
    Anyhow, what order are you going to put it in? Are you going to start with the prequel novels? Will you include Foundation and Earth?
    I just wish they would leave it alone.
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    Image of morenogabr morenogabr
    10/11/09

    In reply to Director Emmerich Explains The Character(s) Of Foundation
    I say: whats with the fetishization of our most treasured writings. I feel we have to admit the fact that most things literary pieces that I am in love with could never be made into a great video or movie. I love them because of what they are, they are worthless apart from the medium. And the observations fit the model. It may actually make money, but thats more a statement about the lowering of standards and the sort of disposable society we live in. Right? We are turning great literature into shallow films that ignore all of the carnita of the story. I think our ancestors will sort of laugh at us for our obsession with Hollywood culture. It only promotes to mediocrity, cliche and brainlessness...
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    Bill-Lee promoted this comment morenogabr was starred morenogabr was unstarred
    Image of Bill-Lee Bill-Lee
    10/12/09

    @morenogabr: If your favorite book becomes a movie, it doesn't destroy the book. My copy of Lord of the Rings is still sitting right on the shelf next to Dune.
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    Image of twDarkflame twDarkflame
    10/11/09

    In reply to Director Emmerich Explains The Character(s) Of Foundation
    Yes, because LOTR would have worked as one movie too.
    Clearly that film was diasterious as a trillogy.
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    Image of bookwench bookwench
    10/11/09

    In reply to Director Emmerich Explains The Character(s) Of Foundation
    Why isn't this under the title "This is a disaster!"?
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    Image of disatess disatess
    10/11/09

    @bookwench: no a disaster is a americanized version of Akira .
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    10/11/09

    @bookwench: It should at least be in the tags.

    Although then it would get mixed up with Garrison's awesome work, which would be an insult to him.
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    Image of blackwednesday blackwednesday
    10/11/09

    In reply to Director Emmerich Explains The Character(s) Of Foundation
    Emmerich has simply never made a good film. He has personally dumbed down the entire medium with every entry he has put forward. Each one worse than the last. And now someone is letting him in the same room as Asimov? Do they just think this guy can "introduce Asimov to a new generation" any better than he did with Godzilla?

    In a country where McDonald's is the #1 selling food, I guess I shouldn't be surprised this guy can put buts in seats. Shameful.
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    10/12/09

    @blackwednesday: Yeah, there were no bad movies before Roland Emmerich.
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    Image of gorehound gorehound
    10/10/09

    In reply to Director Emmerich Explains The Character(s) Of Foundation
    This needs a lot more time than a movie or it will suck.At least to me it will and will be like ramming Dune down your throats in a short time like the 80's film did.
    A mini-series or 3 movies like LOTR for the original trilogy.
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    Image of Tliblem Tliblem
    10/10/09

    In reply to Director Emmerich Explains The Character(s) Of Foundation
    I agree with the idea that this should be a mini-series. The small screen is a great medium to show stories that are too long for the big screen. With the Day One mini-series coming out soon it seems that some TV showrunners are willing to tell a a succinct story without making it last multiple seasons. If only Hollywood would stop making remakes, reboots, adaptations and look up the word "originality" in the dictionary and take a cue from the definition, then stories such as Foundation could be told correctly without condensing three characters into one, like mentioned above.
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    Image of radarskiy radarskiy
    10/10/09

    In reply to Director Emmerich Explains The Character(s) Of Foundation
    How has he grappled with the fact that in Foundation NOTHING FUCKING HAPPENS?

    Every time this movie adaptation comes up I have to point out that pretty much all of the action takes place out of scene. I still haven't propose even a bad way to deal with this.
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    Image of Vexxarr Vexxarr
    10/10/09

    In reply to Director Emmerich Explains The Character(s) Of Foundation
    Say it with me folks: Miniseries. Mi-Nee-Series. Having recently re-read the Foundation Trilogy, I was struck by how modest the location and effect requirements were. It is a totally film-able series told over maybe 20 hours or 5 two-hour (130min) episodes. It would be the Roots of our time. With Psychohistory, of course.
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    Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. promoted this comment Vexxarr was starred Vexxarr was unstarred
    Image of radarskiy radarskiy
    10/10/09

    @Vexxarr: I've heard Foundation as a radio drama. It worked pretty well, as it's a fairly talky work to begin with.
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    Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. promoted this comment radarskiy was starred radarskiy was unstarred
    Image of Brdf Brdf
    10/10/09

    In reply to Director Emmerich Explains The Character(s) Of Foundation
    I realize it's a transcription, but this guy talks in an amazing series of run-on sentences (check the rest of the interview to see more). Just the man to edit down an epic into manageable chunks!
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    Image of Ryanrule Ryanrule
    10/10/09

    In reply to Director Emmerich Explains The Character(s) Of Foundation
    Not even close to filmable. A lot of these stories was just the background, and the overall events happening. Unless they want to put in a narrator, this is fail.
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    Image of screemname screemname
    10/10/09

    In reply to Director Emmerich Explains The Character(s) Of Foundation
    Why condense when this thing is basicly a million short stories already. Pick one and make part of a book.
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    Image of EugeniaBSG EugeniaBSG
    10/10/09

    In reply to Director Emmerich Explains The Character(s) Of Foundation
    No, no, a thousand times no.

    The Foundation Trilogy is not CGI, whiz-bang movie material (maybe a TV mini-series though).

    Try "Nightfall" (the original short story); a manageable premise for a 2-hour framework and opportunity for total CGI chaos at the end.
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    Image of sharesuz2009000 sharesuz2009000
    10/10/09

    In reply to Director Emmerich Explains The Character(s) Of Foundation
    I don't think Seldon saw this coming.
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