Emmerich Plans Foundation As a 3D Epic 283
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from the pretty-darn-seldon dept.
from the pretty-darn-seldon dept.
spuke4000 writes "Roland Emmerich, the writer/director/producer behind Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow, and 2012 is planning to adapt Isaac Asimov's Foundation series. The plans include using technology developed for Avatar including 3D and motion capture technology. When asked about using this technology Emmerich responded: 'It has to be done all CG because I would not know how to shoot this thing in real.'"
Oh My God, THE Roland Emmerich?! (Score:5, Funny)
That's the writing we have to look forward to? And the guy who wrote that is directing?
*curls up into fetal position*
Well, after seeing I, Robot I must say that at least they waited until Asimov was dead before hacking his works up into utter drivel in order to milk those cash cows. Gee, maybe if we're lucky we'll get to see the psychohistorian Hari Seldon played by Tom Cruise scream, "And that's my thousand year plan, bitch!" while snapping his fingers back and forth?
So what are we looking at here? A movie full of catch phrases shot in a new technology that just broke records for box office revenues? Sounds like these executive producers are betting on a winning horse that I'd rather take a bullet to the head than see.
Re:Oh My God, THE Roland Emmerich?! (Score:5, Funny)
*takes a quick stroll over to IMDB*
Well, shit. Guess we're boned, eh?
Re:Oh My God, THE Roland Emmerich?! (Score:4, Funny)
Playboy interview of James Cameron:
PLAYBOY: How much do you get into celebrating your movie heroine's hotness?
CAMERON: Right from the beginning I said, "She's got to have tits," even though that makes no sense because her race, the Na'vi, aren't placental mammals.
Really? (Score:5, Funny)
When I often consider whom I would choose to make a movie about thinking leaders who manage to diffuse conflicts through subtle social and economic pressures, Roland Emerich never fails to make my short list. Of course I would have thought Michael Bay or Uwe Boll to have been more ideal choices.
Re:Doesn't bode well (Score:4, Funny)
> It's a story about ideas...
"Ideas"? You want the guy to sprain his brain or something?
Re:Doesn't bode well (Score:3, Funny)
> It's a story about ideas...
"Ideas"? You want the guy to sprain his brain or something?
How can he sprain that which does not exist?
Re:Oh My God, THE Roland Emmerich?! (Score:3, Funny)
It didn't just have the movie title, it had "Susan Calvin, Action Hero!"
Re:Asimov himself said nothing happens in Foundati (Score:5, Funny)
Not true... (Score:3, Funny)
The movie I, Robot may have been okay if it were simply a standalone film
Sorry... can't agree on this.
It was on TV just last night and it is BAD.
This isn't the first time I've seen it mind you.
First time was truly a torture - particularly cause I've just reread the Robots couple of months prior.
Last night though, I've tried to analyze it to see if it could be made into a watchable movie with some creative editing.
I came to conclusion that it would have to be cut down to about 1/3 of the current length.
- Drop most action sequences. Like Will Smith running after a robot - to point out what? That he is a clueless moron?
- Drop nearly EVERYTHING Will Smith utters during the movie (nearly all his lines are completely pointless one-liners).
- Cut out Shia LaBeouf completely (Why the fuck is he in this movie at all? Who is his agent? Satan?), despite the urge to have him killed in a very graphic way early on in the movie.
There is a scene where he runs through traffic.
Just have a bus run him over.
Make his blood and guts explode across the screen... in slow motion... pretty...
Umm... sorry about that. Got carried away for a moment.
- Re-dub some of the dialog so it makes sense.
- Remove that idiotic red light all bad robots have in their chests just so we would know that they are bad now.
- Also, drop those scenes where they are made to act like spiders or look suspicious and shifty-eyed.
- Remove the pointless product placements.
- Change the name of the movie. It has nearly nothing to do with the book or the stories in it - it shouldn't be called "I, Robot".
Not exactly Maddox's 3 minute cut, more like 30-minute one.
It wouldn't really be a good movie, or a TV episode of some SF show, like Twilight Zone or Outer Limits.
But it would be watchable.
Re:oh good lord (Score:3, Funny)
The Foundation Series - Directed by Quentin Tarantino. "I've got your psychohistory right here. It's the one that says 'Bad Motherfucker.'"
Seriously, it'd be several orders of magnitude better than what Emmerich will excrete.
Re:Help us Hari Seldon, You're Our Only Hope! (Score:3, Funny)
If there really is a secret force out there influencing events to preserve civilization I'm counting on them to prevent this.
Perhaps in 10,000 years a re-screening of the movie shown to the populace forments a revolt that takes out the government of the day, all run by descendants of modern-day Hollywood...
We suffer a little now to protect the mysterious FUTURE.
Re:Help us Hari Seldon, You're Our Only Hope! (Score:3, Funny)
If there really is a secret force out there influencing events to preserve civilization I'm counting on them to prevent this.
You mean you still don't know yet?
Slashdot is Terminus. So far our Encyclopaedia Technologica has been doing pretty well... just as planned.
I can just imagine it (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Oh My God, THE Roland Emmerich?! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:oh good lord (Score:2, Funny)
"Is there a sign out there that says 'Dead Robot Storage'? Is there?"
Re:Help us Hari Seldon, You're Our Only Hope! (Score:3, Funny)
I am most definitely sure Roland Emmerich is the Mule. Not even Seldon could have foreseen this.
Re:Oh My God, THE Roland Emmerich?! (Score:3, Funny)
Isn't that the point of a Godzilla movie?