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New Asimov Movies Coming
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.
They should have made a movie adaptation of Asimov's Chronology of Science and Discovery. THAT would be epic.
I'll be seeing that first run in theatres and buying the DVDs.
They predicted that, you know.
The correlation between ignorance of statistics and using "correlation is not causation" as an argument is close to 1.
The moon is a harsh mistress. Only memorable book I read of his. Ok maybe I remember a few things from foundation but barely.
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As long as it was movies. Not the whole thing crammed into a 90 minute movie
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So you're saying that Asimov botched the job of adapting, by making a crappy movie into a good novel?
you could go to a sports convention and say football is insipid
you could go to a chess club and call chess stupid
but you will go to slashdot, and call lotr boring
so whether you are a troll or a retard, you are most certainly a masochist
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Amen. The only time I have ever fallen asleep with food in my mouth.
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I'll call Keanu Reeves!
Apparently the producers said something like that it was a great book, with a brilliant story, yada yada yada, but could he tone down the DEATH angle a bit?
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I saw the new Bond with my sister and one of her friends, neither of whom had ever seen a Bond movie before. They both hated it because they had no idea what was going on.
This is probably because for some reason they decided to make an actual sequel to Casino Royale. If you didn't see it, you won't have any clue what is going on in this one.
They trash all the nice cars by the opening credits -- the Aston-Martin and the Alfa Romeos. The rest of the film is full of greeny-weenie mobiles and a few Range Rovers.
Bond only nails 1 girl the entire time. What's up with that?
Also, the plot was down right reasonable -- a conspiracy between industrialists and government officials to back a coup in order to gain mineral rights... and the CIA is HELPING!! That's not a Bond plot, that's the Iraq war. WTF.
I hope that they rectify this in the next film. They're on notice, as far as I'm concerned.
As for Heinlein, I remember checking out audio tapes of some of his books as an initial act of juvenile choice at the library... and only after they were playing for my whole family to hear did I realize that the dude had some serious issues with waiting till his heroins were menstruating before thinking about their thighs.
My wife and I had this discussion early on; one of her favorite Heinlein novels is Friday, which was just one big soft-core-porn action flick script, as far as I could tell. She found it an incredibly woman-empowering tale. The conversation would then devolve into whether Heinlein, as expressed in his later books, was pro-feminist and liberated, or simply a dirty old man.
Karma: Excellent, but still won't get you laid.
I would have enjoyed the movie if it wasn't for long minutes of 'nothing' repeated time and time again.
Um, you have read LoTR right? Quite frankly I was impressed by the sheer quantity "nothing happening" that Jackson managed to cut out.
I was with you up until:
fuckheads like yourself willing to part with your hard earned dollars over Liv Tyler's minimal tits
Here's a tip. When you draw a line in the sand, it's usually a good idea to make what's on the other side seem less appealing.
/me pulls out his wallet
It goes from God, to Jerry, to me.