Roland Emmerich promises not to ruin Asimov’s Foundation
Roland Emmerich—the “master of disaster” filmmaker behind Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow and the upcoming 2012—is aware that fans are anxious about his proposed adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s beloved Foundation series of books and doesn’t want to disappoint them. Emmerich plans a trilogy of movies.
For one thing, he knows that most Asimov loyalists hated the 2004 film adaptation of Asimov’s I, Robot.
“They kind of pretty much changed everything, and I think the fans hated the movie,” Emmerich said in a news conference in Jackson Hole, Wyo., last Friday, where he was promoting 2012. “So I didn’t want to do that. But on the other hand, the Foundation, it’s a similar problem, you know? There’s all these short stories, which then later got combined in a book.”
Why you’ve never seen an Independence Day sequel: $$$
Why has Fox never made a sequel to its surprise $800 million hit Independence Day? In typical Hollywood fashion, it all boils down to deals and money, at least according to ID4 co-writer/director Roland Emmerich, who explained it this way to LatinoReview.com:
Dean Devlin and I are still set to make a sequel likely because we’ve found some sort of idea and we approached Fox and Fox has not quite figured out how to incorporate Dean’s and my deal, and Will’s (Smith’s) deal. Will wants to do it in some sort of a package they can live with. So it’s just been in negotiations now since forever, and naturally Fox says “Why don’t you do it without Will Smith?” I said Will is essential for us, for this movie and actually for the audience too.
If the deal stuff can be figured out, Emmerich says he’d love to do ID4 2 and added that he and writer/producer Dean Devlin even have “a very cool” story for it.
Foundation sounds really cool. Have you read it? Are you looking forward to the adaption?
I LOVE Independence Day lol. I would love to see a sequel. Would you like to see a sequel? or meh, who cares?
