That Doesn’t Sound Like a Very Good Idea…
By Bob Shaye and Michael Lynne are looking to the future — literally.
The New Line founders-turned-producers have signed on to produce their first project since they received their post-New Line deal at Warners, boarding an adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s futuristic sci-fi epic “Foundation” that they’ll produce through their Unique Features banner.
… Shaye and Lynne’s goal is to adapt the first book for now, and, if it’s successful, potentially follow the New Line “Lord of the Rings” template by developing adaptations down the road of the second and third books.
The Foundation Trilogy strikes me as about as unfilmable as any one story can be; I could imagine putting together a film based on “The Mule” and “Second Foundation: The Search by the Mule”, but the rest doesn’t exactly lend itself to the cinematic form. Not only do the episodes only rarely share characters, but much of the “action” doesn’t actually consist of action. If you insist upon a screen adaptation, a tv mini-series would make a lot more sense.