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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.
"jackson made some of the bes films ever made"???
:-) Just what is it, that makes Jackson's trilogy "one of the best movies ever made"? I found them unbelievably boring! With nice special effects, yes, and also filmed in a nice corner of the world, but the movies were - in my oppinion - just plain boring.
Oh boy, have *we* different oppinions about the LOTR series!
Asimov had many fantastic ideas, but was a fairly poor author.
There. I said it.
The characters are boring, the plot is boring, and Asimov's dialogue is juvenile at BEST.
Asimov is incredibly overrated. And the "Foundation" series is the most overrates sci-fi series there is. It's just terrible.