Isaac Asimov a very well-known American writer famous for his science fiction novels. He was born in 1920 in the early days of the Soviet Union, Lenin was still alive. He migrated to the United Sates in American, in an early age, where he lived for the rest of life. He died on April 6, 1992. He taught biochemistry at Boston University, He was a highly acclaimed science fiction writer along with Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke. He wrote and edited more than 500 books many more scientific papers. Under one pen he might be considered of the few writers who reached that high number. Inspire of these many books, many were Science Fiction, few were adapted as movies during his lifetime. The two successful science fiction movies, the Bicentennial Man and I, Robot, adapted from his novels were produced after he died. In the former is was a partial adaptation from a short story and other work by him. The latter is alas a mix of different short stories, but the film is credited in bringing the awareness of brought Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics. This has a large influence on many science fiction writers, but it has been picking heat in the ongoing debate on the ethics of artificial intelligence.
Of the major Science Fiction books writing in the subject was Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series. It was very surprising that this series never been adapted for the big screen, even though the first story was released in 1942 and the novel from the series started in 1951. 1950s witnessed a boom in science fiction movies starting with the Day the World Stood Still and the Thing in 1951, It Came from Outer Space (was projected in 3D) and the War of the World in 1953, The Invasion of the Body Snatchers and the Forbidden Planet in 1956, and even Godzilla, the famous monster that terrorized Tokyo after a nuclear bombing a reminder of the horror in the aftermath of the nuclear holocaust of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, was released in 1954.
The original series was a trilogy: Foundation, Foundation and Empire, and Second Foundation. He later he added two sequels (Foundation’s Edge, Foundation and Earth) and two prequels (Prelude to Foundation, Forward the Foundation). These additions referenced his Robot and Empire series, so they can be with one universe.
No reasonable justification was ever given to understand why Hollywood never attempted to give Asimov or the Foundation series a chance for film adaptation. I believe that George Lucas, while writing Star Wars
Original Trilogy, he might have been inspired by Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai for his Jedi warriors and the sword fights, but the rest should have come from the Foundation series.
Now Apple, with its new ambition, to be a major production house like Netflix and Amazon who already started competing with the Giant Hollywood Production Moguls like Disney, Warner Brothers, Paramount and Universal to name a few, has commissioned a 10-episode, direct-to-series. They bought the rights early this year and they have on board as writers David S. Goyer (Batman Dark Knight Trilogy) and Josh Friedman (Spielberg’s War the Worlds 2005 adaptation). Also, on Board Skydance production house (Terminator, Mission: Impossible, and Star Trek franchises).
Hopefully the problem is solved and that will be a tribute for Issac Asimov, the Greatest Science Fiction Writer.
After years of false starts, both at the movies and on TV, Isaac Asimov’s Foundation just got a 10-episode, direct-to-series order from Apple, according to Deadline. The company acquired the rights to the property earlier this year, with Dark Knight writer David S. Goyer and Sarah Connor Chronicles’ Josh Friedman attached to executive produce and showrun. Skydance, the company behind the current Terminator, Mission: Impossible, and Star Trek franchises, is also on board.
Foundation is based on a series of novels by the legendary writer; they tell a vast, sweeping, story of a group of people placed across the universe working to better position humanity for the imminent fall of the Galactic Empire, which currently rules the galaxy. And before you say “Galactic Empire? That’s a Star Wars ripoff,” it’s actually the opposite. Asimov’s first Foundation story was in 1942, and then the novels began in 1951.
Goyer and Friedman are both proven commodities when it comes to cracking complex franchises, so if Apple is now all in on Foundation with this series pickup, it’s incredibly encouraging and exciting. It has the potential to be a Game of Thrones, Westworld, Battlestar Galactica-level show.
Update: A previous version of this story did not credit Michael Whelan, the artist of the book covers. That has been amended.
The Foundation series is a science-fiction book series written by American author Isaac Asimov. For nearly thirty years, the series was a trilogy: Foundation, Foundation and Empire, and Second Foundation. It won the one-time Hugo Award for “Best All-Time Series” in 1966. [1][2] Asimov began adding to the series in 1981, with two sequels: Foundation’s Edge, Foundation and Earth, and two prequels: Prelude to Foundation, Forward the Foundation. The additions referred to events in Asimov’s Robot and Empire series, indicating that they were also set in the same fictional universe.
Foundation is based on a series of novels by the legendary writer; they tell a vast, sweeping, story of a group of people placed across the universe working to better position humanity for the imminent fall of the Galactic Empire, which currently rules the galaxy. And before you say “Galactic Empire? That’s a Star Wars ripoff,” it’s actually the opposite. Asimov’s first Foundation story was in 1942, and then the novels began in 1951.
Goyer and Friedman are both proven commodities when it comes to cracking complex franchises, so if Apple is now all in on Foundation with this series pickup, it’s incredibly encouraging and exciting. It has the potential to be a Game of Thrones, Westworld, Battlestar Galactica-level
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