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Very interesting - agree with your opinion on fousing on the Mule - this was such a great work - its hard to imagine it not being screwed up. I must say that when the first LOTR came out I was furious with some of the liberties that Jackson took. I don't mind "leaving things out" particularly because it is such a long piece but manufacturing things really bugged me. Now that time has passed and the whole series is told. I enjoy them now.
I loved the LOTR movies. I thought it was a great adaptation. The only things that annoyed me were that they missed out the Barrow Wights and that you had to get the director's cut of The Return of the King to see the confrontation between Gandals and a defeated Saruman.Interesting premise Terence. Start with and focus on The Mule. Yes, I think I'd agree.
I read this at scifi.comLooks like I have to re-read the series. It's been a long time since I read it. I've been planning on re-reading it anyway. Now seem like the perfect time.
I just hope they do it justice. Usually I don't like movies based on books because something always gets left out, they invent new things that weren't part of the original story. But I will hope for the best with Foundation.
I did enjoy LOTR. Anything was better than that stupid cartoon of it. Jackson did a good job overall.
I was browsing topics and saw this. The Foundation series is one of my all time favorites! Focusing on the Mule sounds like a great idea! That was my favorite part of the trilogy. We can only hope for the best that they won't totally decimate it.
As someone who has seen 2 of the 4 Emmerich movies mentioned in the article, I can only agree with the opinion of the piece's author.
The first book, I would think, is almost impossible to film. Certainly not as a Hollywood blockbuster. It's a collection of short stories/novellas with no common characters and not all that much action, really.
If I were writing the script, I'd focus on the Mule. There'd be a prologue (a la the introductory scenes from The Lord of the Rings films) which could set the stage - why the Foundations exist and how Seldon's Plan has been chugging along quite happily until the Mule shows up. The rest of the movie can follow the story from the second half of Foundation and Empire as Toran and Bayta and the disguised Mule try to find the Second Foundation and get the Plan back on track.
Plan B, would be to relate the first half of Foundation and Empire and the final confrontation between Terminus and Trantor. The downside with this is that there's no love interest (though, of course, Hollywood is not above inventing one).
And I think trying to explain to audiences why the Second and First Foundations are at loggerheads in the third book would be too difficult. The poor dears would be lost.