Foundation Movies...

External Since: Jun 03, 2004 Posts: 19

Well, hello all...

another first poster here, I really don't know if I am excited for the new
Foundation Films,
but you never know...

Source: http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/520/520842p1.html?fromint=1

Foundation on Film
Asimov's great trilogy is on its way.

June 02, 2004 - Screenwriter Jeff Vintar has told Sci Fi Wire that he's
working on a screenplay adaptation of two novels from the late Isaac
Asimov's well-known Foundation trilogy. You may remember that IGN FilmForce
first broke the news that Vintar was adapting Foundation last fall. Vintar
is condensing the trio of works into two films, Foundation and Second
Foundation.

The Foundation books cover a vast story spanning several centuries,
certainly a remarkable challenge for moviemaking. Vintar plans to summarize
many of the first book's events as backstory in his two films, while
concentrating the storyline on the second chronological half of Asimov's
trilogy.

Vintar has been hired to do the job by 20th Century Fox, who will probably
make both films if the screenplays are approved. No timeline has been given
for actual production yet, and no director has been named.

Vintar probably got the job thanks to his work on I, Robot, a very loose
adaptation of another story by Asimov. Vintar originally submitted the
script under the title Hardwired. Yet another script of his, Spaceless, has
also been acquired by Fox, with Gore Verbinski (Pirates of the Caribbean)
set to direct.

Asimov's Foundation books have won numerous accolades over the years,
including a Hugo award in 1966 for Best All-Time Science Fiction Series. A
fourth addition to the series, Foundation's Edge, won the Best Novel Hugo
award in 1983. Asimov wrote two more Foundation novels before his death.
Vintar's screenplays will be based only on the original three.

Cheers,
Iakovos:)

External Since: Mar 03, 2004 Posts: 265

"iakovos" <indianos DeleteThis @ath.forthnet.gr> wrote:

>Well, hello all...
>
>another first poster here, I really don't know if I am excited for the new
>Foundation Films,
>but you never know...

*Yes* you can know, and the PR blurb you quote provides all the
ammunition:

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>Foundation on Film
>Asimov's great trilogy is on its way.

>June 02, 2004 - Screenwriter Jeff Vintar has told Sci Fi Wire that he's

>Vintar plans to summarize many of the first book's events as backstory in his two films, while
>concentrating the storyline on the second chronological half of Asimov's
>trilogy.

Lessee. In reality of Follywood practices, one film can, at
best, only cover ~1/6th to 1/3 of the book it is nominally 'based
on', 'adapted from', or whatever term of art you want. Two
films, three loonnnngggg books, from which we'll get 1/9th to
2/9ths rendered.

>Vintar probably got the job thanks to his work on I, Robot, a very loose
>adaptation of another story by Asimov.

ROTFLMAOWTIME!!!! Is that filmforce.ign.com a British site.
Because that "a very loose adaptation" is the most classic
example of British understatement that I've seen in a decade.
The adaptation consisted of using one character's name, only the
name {ok, and title}, from Asimov's robot short stories collected
in I, Robot, and thrust her into a previously written,
non-Asmovian script that was then rewritten for Will Smith, in
such a way that it had a bare hint of "The Caves of Steel".
*This* is the screenwriter being let loose on the Foundation
trilogy. Heavens forfend, get thee away from me Satan.

>Cheers,
>Iakovos:)

I found nothing at all "cheerful" in your post, but thanks,
anyway, Iakovos. Bad news is best delivered promptly, however
hard it is on the messenger and the recipient.
--
OJ III
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Lower and crunch the sig and you'll net me at comcast.]