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Is there a film adaptation of Foundation by Isaac Asimov?

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The attempt to turn Isaac Asimov's sprawling and hugely influential Foundation sci-fi book trilogy is one that has frustrated filmmakers and studios for ... as Roland Emmerich and Westworld's Jonah Nolan, who was working up a version for HBO, but switched to focus on the Crichton adaptation instead. read more

Eduardo Pardo, Asimov reader since i could read, maybe before. Answered Sep 19, 2017 It’s too deep for a film, it could be made into a series but it probably would be a too “slow” one. read more

Asimov is one of the titans of 20th-century sci-fi, but the Foundation trilogy doesn’t really offer a neat plot for screen adaptation. The most successful Asimov adaptations tend to be pretty different from the source material, like I, Robot with Will Smith (which stems from the Foundation universe), and the 1999 Robin Williams movie Bicentennial Man. read more

Producers and directors want to put lots of explosions and space battles in it because they think this will make the movie more exciting to audiences, but this would so severely betray and violate the whole point and charm of a Foundation film. read more

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