Roland Emmerich to adapt Asimov's Fundación saga

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It is known that Hollywood For a few years he has been living a fever of remakes and adaptations of works of the most dissimilar arts. This time it was the turn of the science fiction literary saga Foundation, what Isaac Asimov wrote more than 50 years ago.

The person in charge of carrying out such a large production will be nothing more and nothing less than the German filmmaker Roland Emmerich, author of big box office tanks like Independence Day, Godzilla, The Day After Tomorrow and Stargate.

The news was known last Thursday when Columbia Pictures acquired the film rights to the acclaimed series, ahead of other studios such as Fox and Warner. It took a few days for Columbia offer the address to Emmerich. It transpired that Roland Emmerich He will not only be the director but also the producer of the project with his own company, Centropolis Entertainment.

The idea is to adapt the entire trilogy, although from Columbia They anticipated that they will wait to see how the first movie works to start with the possible sequels. Given the success of the two novels by Asimov that were already taken to the big screen, (Me, robot and the bicentennial man) very few doubt that Foundation it will be a box office success. But we will have to wait ...


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