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Counterpoint: "Foundation" is unfilmable as-is, and what we got contains some of its DNA while actually being a good sci fi show. It gives me hope that this sup

Counterpoint: "Foundation" is unfilmable as-is, and what we got contains some of its DNA while actually being a good sci fi show. It gives me hope that this supposed "Hyperion" adaptation could actually work.

thom 4y ago
It would make a decent anthology show, but that doesn’t fit the prestige budget they wanted to throw at it. It’s possible that Prelude could have been a better start because it actually had action.
- nsxwolf 4y ago
  That could have worked. Haven't seen a good sci fi anthology in awhile. "Black Mirror" seemed to have run out of ideas, and "Electric Dreams" was of very uneven quality.
  - Apocryphon 4y ago
    There's a bunch on Netflix right now that I haven't mustered up the interest to watch. "Love, Death & Robots" got a second season, and they also host two different sci-fi horror anthologies for short films from Neill Blomkamp and Guillermo del Toro!
    - thom 4y ago
      The Blomkamp stuff seemed pretty terrible to me. Love, Death & Robots was hit and miss, with the misses being more regular, but the hits like Zima Blue being transcendent.
ThaDood 4y ago
Someone is doing a Hyperion adaption?! Man. That could be some GoT/HotD level of scope.
- nsxwolf 4y ago
  It was first optioned over 20 years ago, and it’s currently in Bradley Cooper’s hands, supposedly. It was going to be done as a series on Syfy, but now it’s apparently going to be a big studio picture.
jetbalsa 4y ago
I think Prelude to Foundation could of been a nice mini-series, but overall Asimov's works are just too fragmented to hold up to being a series really.
- Apocryphon 4y ago
  And his decision to shoehorn his robots into it really watered down the psychohistory focus, though Demerzel is an amazing character on the show.
LarryMullins 4y ago
Counter-Counterpoint: You're right that Foundation was unfilmable, which is why they were wrong to even attempt it. They should have just written their own story instead of pretending to adapt another, but they're not brave enough for that. Or they knew they weren't good enough writers to come up with a story that stood on its own, without a popular legacy to prop it up. I will say though, Foundation is more filmable than some of Asimov's other books. The Gods Themselves is truly, utterly, unfilmable.

thom 4y ago

It would make a decent anthology show, but that doesn’t fit the prestige budget they wanted to throw at it. It’s possible that Prelude could have been a better start because it actually had action.

nsxwolf 4y ago
That could have worked. Haven't seen a good sci fi anthology in awhile. "Black Mirror" seemed to have run out of ideas, and "Electric Dreams" was of very uneven quality.
- Apocryphon 4y ago
  There's a bunch on Netflix right now that I haven't mustered up the interest to watch. "Love, Death & Robots" got a second season, and they also host two different sci-fi horror anthologies for short films from Neill Blomkamp and Guillermo del Toro!
  - thom 4y ago
    The Blomkamp stuff seemed pretty terrible to me. Love, Death & Robots was hit and miss, with the misses being more regular, but the hits like Zima Blue being transcendent.

ThaDood 4y ago

Someone is doing a Hyperion adaption?! Man. That could be some GoT/HotD level of scope.

nsxwolf 4y ago
It was first optioned over 20 years ago, and it’s currently in Bradley Cooper’s hands, supposedly. It was going to be done as a series on Syfy, but now it’s apparently going to be a big studio picture.

jetbalsa 4y ago

I think Prelude to Foundation could of been a nice mini-series, but overall Asimov's works are just too fragmented to hold up to being a series really.

Apocryphon 4y ago
And his decision to shoehorn his robots into it really watered down the psychohistory focus, though Demerzel is an amazing character on the show.

LarryMullins 4y ago

Counter-Counterpoint: You're right that Foundation was unfilmable, which is why they were wrong to even attempt it. They should have just written their own story instead of pretending to adapt another, but they're not brave enough for that. Or they knew they weren't good enough writers to come up with a story that stood on its own, without a popular legacy to prop it up. I will say though, Foundation is more filmable than some of Asimov's other books. The Gods Themselves is truly, utterly, unfilmable.