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Warner Brothers Lays the Foundation

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008 at 8:49 am by Jami

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AZM Ally Greg writes in with news that Warner Brothers has acquired the movie rights to Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series from Fox and is handing the project over to former New Line heads Bob Shaye and Michael Lynn. You may recall that Shaye and Lynn were instrumental in bringing The Lord of the Rings to realization at New Line. Clearly, Warner Brothers hopes that lightning can strike twice.

Of course, it’s easy to nay say. Foundation is impossibly epic spanning, especially if you include the Robot and Empire series. However, similar skepticism was thrown around when LOTR was announced and that trilogy turned out wonderfully. We’ll just have to wait and see if this gets beyond a rights buyout. I would be nice to get a good sci-fi epic on screen to get beyond the Stars Trek and Wars. Yes, yes, I know we’ve got CG clones and emo Starfleet to look forward to. But I kind of feel we’re getting stuck in a sci-fi rut. We need a new take on our future and though Foundation could be considered an old take, it stands the test of time. I’m cautiously optimistic.

[Via Sci-Fi Storm]

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6 Responses to “Warner Brothers Lays the Foundation”

  1. Avatargreg
    Posted: Jul 30th, 2008 at 8:52 am
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    Of course, they could just rewrite it so that only has a vague relationship to the actual book, ala “I, Robot”.

    I think I’m going to re-read the trilogy once I’m finished with “Atlas, Shrugged”

  2. AvatarJami
    Posted: Jul 30th, 2008 at 8:54 am
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    I reeeeeeealy hope they don’t do that :(

    Although, it might be fun to see if Will Smith can carry an entire epic.

  3. AvatarKevin Bahrt
    Posted: Jul 30th, 2008 at 9:36 am
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    I love me some good sci fi movies, but when was the last time you saw some good fantasy? I mean real fantasy with swords and no guns and shit. I’d love to see some stuff like Krull or Conan done with modern tech. Hell I’d love to see some huge ass fire blasts blowing shit up in an epic magic war with demons and dragons and shit.

  4. AvatarTaellosse
    Posted: Jul 30th, 2008 at 2:18 pm
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    It has been way, way too long since I read any of the Foundation books, but doesn’t each one take place millenia apart? There’s no character continuity between books, is there? At least not until the Robot world comes into the mix. I don’t know how well that would work, making a series of movies from this series.

  5. AvatarKevin Bahrt
    Posted: Jul 31st, 2008 at 1:43 am
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    I only read one, I think, and it was way way too long ago, but I don’t think they even gave half the characters names. It was an interesting book though, I’d like to see how people react to the whole event prediction thing. Then I’d laugh at them ’cause I’m mean.

  6. AvatarDevin
    Posted: Jul 31st, 2008 at 9:31 am
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    @Kevin: Last time I saw fantasy? Well the Lord of the Rings trilogy on the silver screen was pretty pimp, and the first Narnia wasn’t that bad either :)

    As far as Foundation goes, I think that it would take the right director to pull it off but I’m cautiously optimistic to see some old school Sci-fi besides Star Wars/Trek…

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