Oh, My Frickin' Stomach

[filkertom]

Roland Emmerich to direct Foundation.

Has anybody told him that not very much shit blows up?

Comments

[darthparadox.livejournal.com]

Why do I get the feeling that this is going to bear even less resemblance to Asimov's works that the "I, Robot" movie did?

[jenrose]

Word.

[eruvanna.livejournal.com]

how is that even possible? The only similarities betwene I, Robot the book and I, Robot the movie, was the movie title, the detective's name and the robot's name.

[peachtales.livejournal.com]

Oh boy.

[hughcasey.livejournal.com]

Hell, LOTS of crap blew up in FOUNDATION!

Of course, in the books, it all happened "off camera", and people just TALKED about it.

And that, right there, is the reason why FOUNDATION won't work as a movie without SUBSTANTIAL changes. That and the fact that there is NO main character who runs the whole way through it. (It might... MIGHT... have worked as a mini-series, on the scale of ROOTS, but even then, it would probably fail.)

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

It's the invisible hand of Hari Seldon, evil and immortal overlord...

[zibblsnrt.livejournal.com]

I do remember one space battle mentioned, which means the movie will be nothing but that one engagement more than likely...

[drzarron.livejournal.com]

Yes, its just one of those little visions of hell, like PeeWee Herman starring in "Lord Foul's Bane"

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

Actually, that would probably improve any film made from the LEPER OUTCAST UNCLEAN LEPER OUTCAST UNCLEAN LEPER OUTCAST UNCLEAN LEPER OUTCAST UNCLEAN LEPER OUTCAST UNCLEAN LEPER OUTCAST UNCLEAN LEPER OUTCAST UNCLEAN LEPER OUTCAST UNCLEAN LEPER OUTCAST UNCLEAN LEPER OUTCAST UNCLEAN LEPER OUTCAST UNCLEAN series

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

I always envisioned Dudley Moore, playing absolutely straight, as Covenant. He could get the right defeated look in his eyes. Problem is, I came to hate the damn books so very much that I'd rather watch a wound scab over than a movie based on them.

[jenrose]

lol!

I must be one of the few people in the universe who will still re-read that series.

[ailsaek.livejournal.com]

Problem is, I came to hate the damn books so very much that I'd rather watch a wound scab over than a movie based on them.

Ooooh yes, this. And yet, I read them all through the once.

[bayushisan.livejournal.com]

I only ever the first book in that series, and that was for a class I had in high school. I hated every page of it btw.

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

I pretty much came to hate them halfway through the first...and still read the first set of them though.

[tomreedtoon.livejournal.com]

Tom, I'm surprised that you said, "Has anybody told him that not very much shit blows up?"

It will now. And wait'll you see the lesbian love scene. This movie will finally establish lesbian love scenes in mainstream moviemaking. It'll convince more women to give it a try than all the greasy, drunk, stupid male football fans in the world ever could.

[thistlethorn.livejournal.com]

Ack! Makes me want to reread the books instead. <covering ears. la la la la la la> <goes off to dig up the books>

[redneckgaijin.livejournal.com]

I dunno... it's amazing how history can be guided by the right thing blowing up in the right place at the right time...

(swap right/wrong depending on your opinion, of course)

[rmeidaking.livejournal.com]

Maybe not in *your* version...

[allandaros.livejournal.com]

Or in Asimov's. :P

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

[blink] That's one of my all-time favorite books, but I really don't see it working as a single movie...

[faxpaladin.livejournal.com]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO...

(switch speaker off, spend half an hour working on the NYT crossword puzzle, switch speaker on)

...OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO...

(sigh, switch speaker off, get caught up on Facebook, switch speaker on again)

...OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

The fact that I didn't recognize the name of the director tells me everything about the kind of films he makes. I'm kinda dead against the entire 3-hours-of-faux-ejaculation-instead-of-a-plot-or-characters-Summer-Film genre.

With Adam Sandler as The Mule!

[bryanp.livejournal.com]

He's probably best known for Saving Private Ryan. A fine movie mind you, but rather different in flavor.

[skunktaur.livejournal.com]

I need to re-read these books... last time I did was in High School and I only got reading credit for Foundation. (Although bonus marks for actually going out and find ~literature~ instead of being #1325 to get LotR on their book list).

I do own one book of Aasimov that I quite like; "The gods themselves".
If they ever try to make that into a blockbuster, I am giving up theater movies.

[shockwave77598.livejournal.com]

There are many great books that make terrible movies. The Foundation series is going to be one of them. What works as a mental picture in your mind and is a sudden surprise is only because the writer keeps a detail hidden from view until the correct time. That's not as easily accomplished in film without resorting to cheesy Horror flick tricks. And even they keep it to a minimum.

I just cannot see the public giving a hoot about Hari Seldon, and the appearance of the mule wrecking all his predictions. I loved the idea that Hari was wrong - a single person does make a difference - but making a movie out of that will either be boring, or worse, so different from the books (ala I Robot) that the film means absolutely nothing (ala I Robot.)

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

If they do Foundation true to the series, it will be even less visually exciting than My Dinner With Andre

[purpleranger.livejournal.com]

Just for clarification, you ARE talking about Isaac Asimov's Foundation, correct?