Update on screen adaptation of Asimov's FOUNDATION series

[MadProfessah]

John Nardo has a blog post (https://www.kirkusreviews.com/feature...) that contains the following:

Isaac Asimov's sprawling Robots and Foundation series started with his classic novel Foundation, the start of a seven book cycle that was a science-fictional retelling of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire. Foundation revolved around the work of mathematician Hari Seldon who developed a new branch of mathematics known as psychohistory, which could be used to generally predict the future path of society. Seldon's psychohistory predicts the inevitable fall of the great Galactic Empire, but hopes to shrink the predicted dark age of thirty millennia to a mere thousand years. It seems like a thousand years since fans have been waiting to see this classic adapted to the screen, but the wait may be over. The production company Skydance is seeking to produce a television series based on the first three books of Asimov's Foundation (1951's Foundation, 1952's Foundation and Empire and 1953's Second Foundation). David S. Goyer (writer of Christopher Nolan's Batman films) and Josh Friedman (writer behind Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds adaptation) are attached to the project.

[Carole-Ann]

Nikki wrote: "This makes me giddy. Asimov is one of my favorites and I love the idea of this series being adapted."

Me too !!

[V.W.]

Let's hope they don't "re-imagine" the books as much as they did War of the Worlds.

[Kateb]

V.W. wrote: "Let's hope they don't "re-imagine" the books as much as they did War of the Worlds."

up until this comment I was thrilled, but yes they did change war of the worlds until it was beyond recognition. Same for the day the world stood still ( even though the original was very dated , 1050's, it was a decent story)

[Dj]

I am more worried that they will pull an LotR on it. Add battles for the excitement value and loose the thread of the story.

[Kateb]

whoops I miss typed" the day the earth stood still" was in the 1950's. And thanks Dj I never thought of the exaggeration they do with battle scenes. horror

[Lexxi Kitty]

MadProfessah wrote: "John Nardo has a blog post (https://www.kirkusreviews.com/feature...) that contains the following:

Isaac Asimov's sprawling Robots and Foundation series started with his classic novel Foundation"

No it didn't. It didn't start with the 1951 novel Foundation. But in May 1942 when the first short story appeared in 'Astounding Magazine'. And that first novel was more of a short story collection (5 short stories), but if they want to call that a novel, so be it.

Mind you, all of the above might be in the article. I can't actually look at the article at the moment. heh.

'first three books of Asimov's Foundation (1951's Foundation, 1952's Foundation and Empire and 1953's Second Foundation)' - final two books in the trilogy are also short story collections.

Of course, all that I note here might already be known. It just hit wrong when I read the snippet from the article in the first post that indicated that it all 'started with his classic novel', since it didn't.

[Angela]

even I Robot was too off the short story

[Trike]

I don't see how they can adapt the Foundation series without adding to it. The jumps in time are too great for continuity, unless they do one book per season or collapse all the books into one era and have them run one after the other, with some overlaps.

The real issue is resisting turning it into "Khaleesi on Coruscant." You know they're getting pressure to do just that.