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Forward the Foundation Movie
SF Signal — It looks like the stalled film adaptation of Isaac Asimov's Foundation may be moving forward. Says Variety: Columbia won an auction late Thursday for screen rights to "Foundation," Isaac Asimov's ground breaking science fiction trilogy. The film will be developed as a directing vehicle for Roland Emmerich. Emmerich and his Centropolis partner Michael Wimer will produce the film. The deal was mid six-figures against low seven figures. Originally published as a series of eight short stories in Astounding ...

A Seldon Crisis of epic proportions in the making.
Tor.com — Variety reports: Columbia won an auction late Thursday for screen rights to “Foundation,” Isaac Asimov’s ground breaking science fiction trilogy. The film will be developed as a directing vehicle for Roland Emmerich. Emmerich and his Centropolis partner Michael Wimer will produce the film. The deal was mid six-figures against low seven figures. I see nothing but ‘train wreck’ written all over this. Emmerich is a competent filmmaker, churning out big-budget genre spectacles of debatable quality like Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow. But both of these movies are nothing more than shallow, ...