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New Asimov Movies Coming

Posted by Soulskill on from the dear-god-no-will-smith dept.

bowman9991 writes "Two big budget Isaac Asimov novel adaptations are on the way. New Line founders Bob Shaye and Michael Lynne are developing Asimov's 1951 novel Foundation, the first in Asimov's classic space opera saga, which has the potential to be as epic as Lord of the Rings. At the same time, New Regency has recently announced they were adapting Asimov's time travel novel The End of Eternity. Despite having edited or written more than 500 books, it's surprising how little of Isaac Asimov's work has made it to the big screen. '"Isaac Asimov had writer's block once," fellow science fiction writer Harlan Ellison said, referring to Asimov's impressive output. "It was the worst ten minutes of his life."' Previous adaptations include the misguided Will Smith feature I, Robot, the lame Bicentennial Man with Robin Williams, and two B-grade adaptations of Nightfall." This reader also notes that a remake of The Day of the Triffids is coming.

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  1. Re:Oh, the potential by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Probably because it's fucking awesome. You and your mongoloid son aren't.

  2. you're either an awesome troll by circletimessquare · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    or a fucking retard

    can't decide which

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  3. Re:Oh, the potential by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Fans of Tolkien hated every minute of those movies. The only things that survived into the screenplay were the names and the scenery. Every single character was mutilated and then flattened into a 2 dimensional cardboard cutout. The single greatest travesty is the millions of people that loved the movies, because they hadn't read the books and got the usual claptrap they are used to on the screen, made zillions of dollars for the film, and GUARANTEED no worthwhile film of such a book will EVER be made because these films proved you don't have to work that hard to get rich.

  4. I shall use my immense mental powers now... by denzacar · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Bored of the rings, lack of common sense, and proclamations of "Foundation is not a novel!" and anything BUT utter disgust to "I, Robot" (even a delusional claim that it was "true" to Asimov's laws) - you are about 16.

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    1. Re:I shall use my immense mental powers now... by denzacar · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      If you truly are an adult, then you should leave the insults in the playground.

      I've tried that.
      But every time I came close to a playground carrying a pickax and a shovel and started digging the hole kids would start complaining to their guardians and I was asked to leave or they would call the police.

      No a 16 year old acts much as yourself (a supreme belief that only HIS view matters, and anyone else is an idiot).

      I don't mind that you disagree with me, because not everybody has the same perspective, but I do mind being insulted as a person half my age. If you truly are an adult, then you should leave the insults in the playground.

      Its not a belief - its a proven fact. Like... with graphs, pie-charts and all.

      As for "only mine" perspective... Check the imdb.
      Most of the "OMG I LOVE THIS MOVEI!!one11eleven" votes came from "Males under 18", and grades go down after that age.

      Add to that the "LOTR is boooring... not enough sex and killing, not at all like the movie" comment I've heard mostly from humanoids born in the '90s, and obvious (probably TV-induced) lack of imagination ("I don't know how it can be adapted to a movie") - I'm afraid that at least as far as movie and book tastes are considered you are underage.

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    2. Re:I shall use my immense mental powers now... by denzacar · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      Nor does it give you license to insult those that disagree with you. Even if it were a represenatative sample, no ones opinion is wrong. It could be the minority opinion, but it doesn't necessarily make it invalid.

      His bad taste does exactly that. And more.

      Not only am I granted an open license to taunt, ridicule, insult and in some case physically hurt such people - it is my duty.

      It is a representative sample of those that go to the website IMDB.com, have created an account, watched the movie in question and bothered to leave a review (assuming no one lied about their age when creating their accout, or rated a movie they never bothered to see). Taking that limited and obviously non-representative population and extrapolating it to the population at large is ludicrous in the extreme.

      Oh.. I'm sorry... You thought I was giving "reasons" for my "claim".
      Hell NO!

      I was simply giving examples.
      Anyone with half a brain knows what a colossal piece of monkey turd "I, Robot" was.
      Anyone claiming watching that movie 3 times clearly falls under the above mentioned category of people with bad taste and should be dealt with accordingly. And lacks the proverbial half of brain.

      They probably also indulge a habit of sexual intercourse with poultry, but I can't say if it is so in all cases.
      And as long as they take the chicken out to dinner before the act, and there is mutual consent - who am I to stand in the way of their love?

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