What Book Would You Like To See On The Big Screen?

[Kuciwalker]

WTF? The Foundation trilogy would be terrible on the big screen.

[Richelieu]

Pleading Guilty by Scott Turow.

[Richelieu]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
WTF? The Foundation trilogy would be terrible on the big screen.

I agree. A TV series would be better.

[Kuciwalker]

It wouldn't be good in any visual medium.

[CrONoS]

by the way; I have read seven Foundation book is that the same thing than the trilogy?

The trilogy is probably the 7 books in 3 books.

[CrONoS]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
It wouldn't be good in any visual medium.

Why? Esthetically, the movie could be awesome.

[Kuciwalker]

Foundation is a very cerebral book. Those don't translate well.

[Lord Avalon]

Hammer's Slammers by David Drake

[CrONoS]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
Foundation is a very cerebral book. Those don't translate well.

Solaris from S. Lem was also a very cerebral books who was adapted to cinema two times.

But I understand what you are saying, but I think it could be easily adapted for visual media. If you skip the subtlety of the books, you have a very understandable movie.

[Kuciwalker]

Okay, as long as you keep Will Smith out of it.

[CrONoS]

Okay!
Will Smith should kept a distance of 10km from the studio... otherwise he would be shot on sight!

[OzzyKP]

I think the Xanth series by Piers Anthony would translate good to movies. They'd be quirky and I dunno how big of an audience would go for it, but maybe if it is billed as a humorous LOTR they could do well.

[Richelieu]

Originally posted by cronos_qc
by the way; I have read seven Foundation book is that the same thing than the trilogy?

The trilogy is probably the 7 books in 3 books.

IIRC the three books from the initial trilogy were Foundation, Foundation and Empire and Second Foundation.
Asimov wrote the other books a long time after the initial three, something like 25 - 30 years i think. Not sure about 7 but i do remember at least 2 more.

[CrONoS]

You're right Richelieu:

Asimov unsuccessfully tried to end the series at the end of Second Foundation. But, because of the predicted thousand years until the rise of the next Empire (of which, only a few hundred had elapsed), the series lacked a sense of closure. For decades, fans pressured him to write a sequel.
Foundation and Earth
Foundation and Earth

In 1982, following a thirty-year hiatus, Asimov gave in and wrote what was at the time a fourth volume: Foundation's Edge. This was followed shortly thereafter by Foundation and Earth. Foundation and Earth (which takes place some 500 years after Seldon) ties up all the loose ends, but opens a brand new line of thought in the last dozen pages. As a result, many fans (wanting a tidy end to the series) consider this finale to be a failure. According to his widow Janet Asimov (in her biography of him, It's Been a Good Life), he had no idea how to continue after Foundation and Earth, so he started writing the prequels.

I'm at home right now, here all the foundation book that I have corresponding to the timeline of the history; the first being Henry Seldon presenting his works in front of other other mathematicians. The first three books would be really easy to show in a movie.

Prelude to foundation
Forward the foundation
Foundation
Foundation and Empire
Second Foundation
Foundation Edge
Foundation and Earth

[Alexander I]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
To nitpick, Starcraft is derivative of Warhammer 40k more than anything else.

Really? It always seemed to me to be an obvious rip-off of Robert Heinlein's Starship Troopers.

Troopers=Terrans
Bugs=Zerg
Skinnies=Protoss