GKarsEye
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Here's a nice opinion piece on the whole summer blockbuster thing. I agree with a lot of it.
Or episode III, even ...But I think the big summer will be next year with the release of Star Wars episode VI ...
...is to convey the message that no movie is worthy of our sustained attention because in just a few days something else will take its place.
"I, Robot" - from the 30 second or so trailer I saw, they are not only not basing this on Asimov's work, but they have completely IGNORED his work when making this. I think I'll pass
"Renvedous with Rama" - if they don't degenerate this into a "lets all stand around and be stunned by the FX" it could be a great movie. IF they can translate Clarke's vision onto screen.
"Foundation/Foundation and Empire" - Yea! From what I've read they are definitely taking the intelligent approach to this screen adaptation (summarize as back story virtually all of Foundation, it skips through generations too quickly for an audience to get to know any characters, get to the second book where individual characters start to emerge and stay around for awhile).
"X-Men III" - I have to see it because Patrick Stewart will be in it. It's the only series of comic-book-based movies I've seen, other than the first 3 "Batman" movies
"Shrek III" - at least I've heard it will, eventually, be made. Personally, I'm waiting for the lines to die down a bit before I see "Shrek II" in the theater.
"Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" - YEA! Please don't let them ruin it...
Screenwriter Jeff Vintar (I, Robot) told SCI FI Wire that he is working on film adaptations of SF author Isaac Asimov's epic Foundation trilogy of books, with Shekhar Kapur attached to direct. The trilogy will be consolidated into two scripts, Foundation and Second Foundation, with much of the first book's events summarized as backstory, Vintar said in an interview.
"Each story is separated usually by a period of 100, 200 or 300 years," Vintar said. "Each story has a new set of characters. So adapting it into the film comes with a unique series of problems. How can I create something which is still recognizably Foundation, and yet give us a narrative that has the requirements of a film?"
Vintar added that the studio, 20th Century Fox, encouraged him to focus on the latter half of the trilogy's timeframe. "So much of the Foundation stories take place over the course of, I think, 500 years, that we're narrowing down our story to the latter half of the period. The story that we're interested in telling—[that] the studio's interested in telling—seems to lend itself to two films. That's what we're trying to do right now. But we'll see how it goes." No cast or production announcements have been made.
I mean changing a story when making it into a movie is one thing. Completely turning the basic theme on it's head is just nonsense.
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