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HBO Developing Asimov's Foundation Series As TV Show

Posted by Soulskill on from the to-succeed,-planning-alone-is-insufficient dept.

wired_parrot writes: Jonathan Nolan, writer of Interstellar and The Dark Knight, and producer of the TV show "Person of Interest," is teaming up with HBO to bring to screen a new series based on Isaac Asimov's Foundation series of books. This would be the first adaptation of the Hugo-award-winning series of novels to the screen.

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  1. Re:Yes! by Jhon · · Score: 4, Funny

    Good thing it's Asimov and not George R R Martin...

    Hari Seldon would have been killed by a classmate before he ever developed psychohistory.

  2. Re:Yes! by Vlado · · Score: 4, Funny

    How will HBO put boobs in this? Will there be fembots in it? :-)

  3. Woo-hoo! by wonkey_monkey · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now I don't have to read the books.

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  4. Re: Just the trilogy, I hope by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Make three movies. Then reboot a few years later with lots of lens flare. Then reboot the reboot without the lens flare but the Mule will be an actor who is all steroided out body builder. Then of course there will be a Wayan brothers' spoof called "Floundation Series" and the mule is a pot head flaming gay guy.

  5. Re:Yes! by K.+S.+Kyosuke · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, at least we got to learn that Minister Lizalor's breasts were as massive, firm, and overpoweringly impressive as the Minister herself. ;-)

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  6. Re:Are we ready for a universe without aliens? by RabidReindeer · · Score: 4, Funny

    Most movies and TV shows take place in a universe where the only sentient beings are humans from Earth.

    Quite a few seem to be based in a universe where there aren't any sentient beings at all. We call them "reality TV".

  7. Re:Is it true? by quenda · · Score: 4, Funny

    That Al-Quaida gets its name from these books?

    Yes. As a Russian American Jew, Asimov represented everything that Bin Laden loved.