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[CitizenVectron]

Wait, I have a VERY important question:

Is this an adaptation of the awesome galaxy-spanning original trilogy of books...or an adaptation of the prequels focusing on less-interesting things?

 

[smokeandmirrors]

Foundation is a really short book (by today's standards), as are the sequels. They're easy reads, too, I think.

That's good to hear. The books have been sitting in my amazon cart for the longest time, I've just been really lazy about buying them.

 

[SteveWinwood]

Wait, I have a VERY important question:

Is this an adaptation of the awesome galaxy-spanning original trilogy of books...or an adaptation of the prequels focusing on less-interesting things?

id think the original trilogy

id hope

 

[DOBERMAN INC]

Providing this gets a huge budget I am very excited.
I'm one of the few that prefares the Robot series of books but Foundation is great too and would love to see it adapted well.

 

[Admiral Woofington]

Is the 'less interesting trilogy' you're talking about the Robots/caves of steel trilogy? If so ouch. I like those. Maybe I do need to read the foundation series.

 

[SteveWinwood]

Is the 'less interesting trilogy' you're talking about the Robots/caves of steel trilogy? If so ouch. I like those. Maybe I do need to read the foundation series.

No. After Asimov wrote the original Foundations he went back and wrote some prequels that are less good.

 

[Sectorseven]

That summary of Foundation sounds like the basic plot of Atlas Shrugged.

 

[SteveWinwood]

That summary of Foundation sounds like the basic plot of Atlas Shrugged.

Howso?

 

[not psycho]

Is the 'less interesting trilogy' you're talking about the Robots/caves of steel trilogy? If so ouch. I like those. Maybe I do need to read the foundation series.

No, that's a different series. The Elijah Baley books (The Caves of Steel, The Naked Sun, The Robots of Dawn) are fantastic. Also, probably easier to adapt.

The Foundation series has 2 prequels (Prelude to Foundation and Forward the Foundation) and 2 sequels. I think most of us are hoping they start with the originals.

 

[Sectorseven]

Howso?

John Galt doesn't like where he sees America headed so he starts snatching up all the best business people and makes his own country with them.

 

[Krowley]

Interesting. I liked the books although the first three are - as even Asimov admitted - people standing around in a single room and talking a lot. I imagine they’ll shake things up a bit for TV.

I recently finished reading the main trilogy, and I would definitely agree with that description. Asimov's writing style is basically to put a bunch of people together in a room and have them converse about something that just happened to them. Then he jumps ahead in time after some other major event has occurred, and the characters have another conversation to explain that event.

Basically it means there is absolutely no sense of immediacy to the scenes at all.

But, despite that, I thought the books were entertaining and there were quite a few cool ideas.

I think it would work really well as a TV series. The storytelling style in the books is so sparse that there's tons of room for expansion and stretching things out.

 

[SocksAndShoes]

Awesome news. Now we just need someone to do a mini-series based on the Culture series by Iain M. Banks.

 

[CitizenVectron]

John Galt doesn't like where he sees America headed so he starts snatching up all the best business people and makes his own country with them.

No, it's really nothing like that. The story doesn't really involve Seldon once he sets up his Foundation planet. I would say it's more similar to Noah's Ark than Atlas Shrugged. And the message isn't about society being run poorly, more about the future society simply being too huge to run without predictive modelling (which is too late to implement when he discovers it).

And yeah the less-good (though not bad) prequels I mentioned are the Foundation prequels, not the Robot series. The Robot series is awesome.

 

[CitizenVectron]

Awesome news. Now we just need someone to do a mini-series based on the Culture series by Iain M. Banks.

Oh wow, can you imagine? That one would really have to be an anthology series though, with each season being a whole new story and cast (and time period!).

I'd also like a Commonwealth Duology series (Pandora's Star and Judas Unchained).

 

[triplestation]

this sounds so stupid

 

[Akahige]

So gaf likes this Nolan? What about the other Nolan taking hits out on guys, is he better than Chris too?

 

[Passive Assassin]

can't wait. might have to do a reread!

 

[totowhoa]

Awesome news. The original trilogy are some of my favorite books of all time.

 

[Lord Fagan]

My body...it's so ready.

 

[Anjin M]

I hope they stick with the original trilogy. Foundation's Edge might not have been awful, but it leads to the execrable Foundation and Earth. I made the mistake of tracking that book down back when it was out of print and have regretted doing so ever since.

 

[Ape Gone Insane]

Why not just do Dune? More interesting story, characters and concepts and it fills the GoT gap perfectly (Royal Houses/families in space fighting for power).

 

[Akahige]

Why not just do Dune? More interesting story, characters and concepts and it fills the GoT gap perfectly (Royal Houses/families in space fighting for power).

Some other studio most likely holds the rights for that.

 

[xbhaskarx]

I've never read anything about Issac Isimov.. is he good??

Really?

 

[Ape Gone Insane]

I've never read anything about Issac Isimov.. is he good??

Yes. Concepts and world-building are top notch, writing not so much. He's one of the fathers of science fiction (along Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke), like what Tolkien is to high fantasy.

 

[Oveja Negra]

I can't believe this is finally happening.

As a huge Asimov fan, I really really hope this end being great.

Will this cover the trilogy or what?

 

[hardcastlemccormick]

I love Foundation. Even the BBC radio show is great. But I'm hesitant on this.

Hope they find somebody great to play the Mule. And plus HBO brings a nice big space pew pew budget.

 

[sans_pants]

The most exciting part of this is that HBO is doing prestige scifi

 

[tycoonheart]

Oh my god! YES! This is the best sci-fi novel series in existence. I've read the books many many times. Super excited for this.

 

[whatever77]

Awesome news. Now we just need someone to do a mini-series based on the Culture series by Iain M. Banks.

I only like Player of the Game. Just make season one based on it. It should be able to make very cheaply.

 

[googleplex]

Fuck YA!!

Hari Seldon, Salvor Hardin and Hober Mallow are three of my favorite Si-Fi characters.

Psychohistory all up in this mother fucker.

 

[Dynamite Shikoku]

Nice

 

[Zeus Molecules]

My current favorite director is making a tv series of my favorite Sci Fi series ever .....

Wait until the season with the mule...... it will be a classic series

 

[Violet_0]

I need to go back to reading the second book

I'm curious how this will work out with all the frequent time skips and changing characters

 

[Chris R]

My current favorite director is making a tv series of my favorite Sci Fi series ever .....

Wait until the season with the mule...... it will be a classic series

Wrong Nolan.

 

[B.K.]

A series is the best way to adapt Foundation. I wonder if they'll do one season for each section of the book.

 

[whatsinaname]

My current favorite director is making a tv series of my favorite Sci Fi series ever .....

Wait until the season with the mule...... it will be a classic series

I wonder which order they will make them in. Maybe they will go the Arrow route, with two parallel lines. Cutting between Seldon's time line and the "Present".

SPOILERS for all Asimov books.

Spoiler

Imagine if they did the whole stretch from Caves of Steel to Foundation and Earth.

Edit!:

Spoiler

And that is topped off by an End of Eternity mini-series.

!

A guy can dream.

 

[zert]

This could be really awesome. I'm interested.

 

[Tatsumaki Senpuukyaku!]

This is going to be hard to adapt. Looking forward to seeing them try though.

Why not just do Dune? More interesting story, characters and concepts and it fills the GoT gap perfectly (Royal Houses/families in space fighting for power).

Because Dune's already been done multiple times?

 

[Xe4]

I wonder how they will make it interesting enough for HBO. Foundation is awesome, but I could never see it as a TV series. Its a lot of plot and almost no action.

 

[superdeluxe]

Could be epic

 

[Haly]

This is not going to work, not by a long shot.

 

[Aureon]

I'M BOARDING THE HYPE TRAIN, AND YA'LL AIN'T STOPPING IT.

No, seriously. It could work, as a TV series. 60-min for every story break, and ta-dah, it's done. If it ends up being just on Hari Seldon, eg. the prequels, i'll be sorely disappointed.

I've never read anything about Issac Isimov.. is he good??

Is this serious? Go read Foundation, or Robots, or I, Robot, or Bicentennial Man, or End of Eternity, or just start here with The Last Question:
http://www.multivax.com/last_question.html

 

[charsace]

Finally! Someone is doing Asimov.

 

[lightus]

Yes! Let it be good. Please.

 

[Apath]

Not a big fan of the book, but it could definitely translate well to an HBO show. Will definitely watch.

 

[Lé Blade Runner]

One of the best books I've read. I left Children of the Mind unfinished, maybe I should try and wrap it up one day.

It really is. The scope of a story can't get much grander than The Foundation -saga.

 

[cDNA]

I wonder how they will make it interesting enough for HBO. Foundation is awesome, but I could never see it as a TV series. Its a lot of plot and almost no action.

They will add a lot of sex scenes.

Spoiler

I haven't read the books so I don't really know

 

[zhengjie89]

Finally someone is making a tv series of it.
My all time favorite series of book

 

[SteveWinwood]

They will add a lot of sex scenes.

Spoiler

I haven't read the books so I don't really know

i cant imagine them fitting it in without just entirely making scenes up for them

which is probably what will happen

 

[unholyrevenger72]

They will add a lot of sex scenes.

Spoiler

I haven't read the books so I don't really know

4th Law of Robotics, You shall pleasure humans when they ask of it unless it interferes with the previous 3 laws.