Roland Emmerich to direct "Foundation" trilogy; Asimov fans on suicide watch

[Regulus Tera]

Columbia Pictures has won rights to produce a film adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s Foundation science fiction trilogy, with Roland Emmerich attached to direct. Emmerich will produce along with Michael Wimer, who was also a producer (and thus, a complicit party) in Emmerich’s own 10,000 B.C. According to Variety, Sony-owned Columbia Pictures’ win came as a surprise, as WB and Fox were originally duking it out for this one, which now appears to be their lot in life. Through the fray, Columbia’s president, Matt Tolmach, apparently saw an opportunity to acquire the rights and went for it.

I don't need psychohistory to know this is gonna suck (http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/01/16/columbia-wins-rights-for-isaac-asimovs-foundation-trilogy-with-roland-emmerich-directing/#more-18836).

[TheSparrow]

I don't need psychohistory to know this is gonna suck (http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/01/16/columbia-wins-rights-for-isaac-asimovs-foundation-trilogy-with-roland-emmerich-directing/#more-18836).

Wait, there are Asimov fans that watch movies who havent killed themselves after seeing what Fox did to I, Robot?

[Runswithnopants]

Eh, can't be worse than what Asimov did to it with the last few books he wrote.

Edit: Don't get me wrong. I think Asimov is an amazing author. I just intentionally ignore Prelude, Forward, Edge, and Foundation and Earth, and pretend that the original three books are all there ever was.