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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. While you're at it... by Dimwit · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Make a Rendezvous With Rama movie, would ya?

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    ...but it's being eaten...by some...Linux or something...
  2. Re:Yes! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    One of the reasons for the lack of sex in the Foundation stories is that most of them appeared in Astounding (now Analog) back when Kay Tarrant was John Campbell's assistant. She was well known for not letting any such stuff through in the stories.

    It wouldn't have bothered Asimov, although it'd likely be more masked in double-entendre and implication than anything graphic. After all, this is the guy who wrote "The Dirty Old Man's Guide to Sex" and co-wrote "Limericks: Too Gross".

  3. Re:Pre chaos theory by Mozai · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The story has antigravity, faster-than-light travel, force-shield projectors you can wear as a belt buckle and you're okay with the unrealistic physics, but you dismiss the entire series because you don't like the abstractly-defined maths in the first book?

    If you thought Asimov was unaware of chaos theory, then you haven't read past the first book, and you also don't know the author's other works.