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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: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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  5. 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".

  6. 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.