I don't know how many of you like the Foundation Series by Isaac Asimov, but this news makes me giddy. Apple is apparently making a 10 episode mini-series based on the books. Here's the link if you're interested. https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/11/17223728/apple-foundation-trilogy-isaac-asimov-tv-show-david-goyer-josh-friedman Sorry I don't know how to make a thumbnail come up. Also, Denis Villeneuve is still making a series of motion pictures based on Frank Herbert's Dune, in spite of the less-than-stellar box office returns on Blade Runner: 2049. I hope I'm not the only person here happy about his news. I'm a dork; I admit it.
Dune was super boring as a book, but if done well I could see it being a great series of movies. It's good that they won't try and make a dune movie in under 3 hours, as that proved to be terrible the first time.
Dune is boring as a book if you're a slavering retard who has been mentally ruined by a deluge of digital bullshit 24/7 and you have the attention span of a meth addict who hasn't slept in four days
Star Wars might as well be The Very Hungry Caterpillar when compared to Dune.
Dune is definitely pretty long, and it's pretty convoluted. It's also an exceedingly complicated world, and a lot of the politics can be hard to digest. There's no shame in googling some of the obscure terminology lol.
All in all though it's probably the best science fiction novel out there
Imagine unironically being this pretentious.
Isaac Asimov is my favorite science fiction author, so that's exciting news. As for Dune, my memories of the old movie makes me pessimistic, but we shall see.
The David Lynch movie is a HOOT! Cow Tongue eating! The movie had cow tongue eating! And everybody would think in whispers! Were they afraid a telepath was eaves-dropping on them? Have you seen the Sci Fi Channel (now SYFI) miniseries from 2000? Closer to the book in a lot of ways and with a lot more pretty bright colors, but very LONG...And William Hurt was his usual bland self as Duke Leto Atriedies. I'm very excited about the Foundation Series since people have been trying to adapt that for YEARS! The BBC did a radio play miniseries of it around 1972, but everybody in that is talking with an English accent. Apparently, the people behind the Westorld TV series were originally going to do Foundation for HBO, but that fell through. We'll see how this goes. Never knew what to think of the Roger Corman movie of Nightfall.
I can see it would be a challenge to adapt the Foundation Series. Here's a link to the BBC radio-play miniseries if you're interested. https://archive.org/details/IsaacAsimov-TheFoundationTrilogy Sorry, I don't really know how to make the links actual links. Apple is supposed to be doing 10 episodes, so they may have enough time to develop the world and characters (and most of the characters can stand to be flesh-out a bit more). Maybe if the actors are good enough, they can give the material the dramatic weight it needs. As to Dune, I saw the David Lynch movie in the theaters in 1984. I recall getting kind of bored by the last act, but the first 15 minutes are absolutely GORGEOUS, especially when we see the Guild ships land on Kitain. I almost think the Lynch version would be great to show at a party as a bad movie; there are so MANY howlers in that picture!
Scifi mini series was better in general, but Baron Harkonnen in the movie was suitably more disgusting.
I think it was Kenneth McMillan who played Baron Harkonen in the David Lynch Dune. He's Hilariously over-the-top. Although I noticed both the movie and the miniseries shied away from addressing the Baron's Pedophilia. Why should that be an issue? He's a BAD GUY! He does things that make Hitler look like an an ameture but producers are worried about him being child molester.
Mizal, I'm usually on my friend's laptop at work. Doing what your suggesting using rich text editor won't mess his settings, will it? Or am I just showing my vast ignorance of computers by even asking that?
I did like the way the actor playing the Baron in the miniseries tried to be charming even at his most psychopathic.
Oh I agree that I still liked the actor in the mini-series that played the Baron.
As for the Baron's pedo ways, they sort of touched on it very slightly in the movie I suppose with the young looking servant that he pulls the heart plug out of, implying he was into the whole young dudes thing, but yeah I guess they didn't want to bogged down by the Baron's many fetishes.
I saw the Nightfall movie many years ago, when it first came out. I can't remember much about it specifically, since it was a pretty forgettable movie. I simply remember sitting down with anticipation and slowly being overcome with disappointment.
The movie is only good if you want to see Sarah Douglass topless. Yep, that's about it...
I've always loved Isaac Asimov. I actually think he had a good style. A lot of young, aspiring writers can learn some useful things from studying his writing. It's clean, clear and concise. He never cared to waste his readers' time. That's why his novels all read so fast. I've read a good number of them.
Duuuuuuuuuuune? I hope it looks really cool, I wanna see some sandworms and nose tubes! But I wonder how it'll go down with the villain, since he's very touchy feely nom nom, ya know. Hmmmmmmmmmm. I hope the sandworms look like the ones from The Tree Of Palme! Yep!
It'd be Hilarious if they looked like the Sandworms in Beatlejuice.
harvey weinstein gets casted at baron harkonnen, I'm calling it