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Director Roland Emmerich Talks Adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s FOUNDATION Trilogy as well as His Movie About William Shakespeare?!
Director Roland Emmerich Talks Adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s FOUNDATION Trilogy as well as His Movie About William Shakespeare?!
I’m currently in Jackson Hole, Wyoming where I just got out of the press conference for Roland Emmerich’s upcoming disaster flick “2012″ during which he spoke about two of his upcoming projects. One is his plan to adapt Isaac Asimov’s “Foundation” ...
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Director Emmerich Explains The Character(s) Of Foundation [Foundation]
io9 — ... go through the three movies. Emmerich also mentioned that writer Rob Rodat is yet to send him the screenplay for Foundation, but he's optimistic it will be finished before his disaster epic 2012 comes out. The timeline for Foundation is still somewhat unclear, but it's at least one movie down the road for Emmerich; his next movie will be Anonymous, a political thriller about the authorship of William Shakespeare's plays. [Collider] ...

FOUNDATION to become a movie
The Wertzone — Director Roland Emmerich was recently announced to be developing a movie based upon the Foundation novels by Isaac Asimov, in particular the original trilogy of Foundation (1951), Foundation and Empire (1952) and Second Foundation (1953). Originally it appeared the project was doomed to development hell, but Emmerich recently announced the film will be his next project after his current film, the William Shakespeare movie Anonymous, wraps up (his previous movie, 2012, hits cinemas in a few weeks). ...

Daily Scan for 10.12.09 - Reitman Directs Ghostbusters, Singer Directs X-Men
SciFi Scanner — ... • Roland Emmerich, who shouldn't be let near any serious scifi franchise, is tackling the venerable Foundation series and already has thoughts on how he's going to mangle it. ...

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