I'm a big Asimov fan, even though most of my favorite authors are the opposite style and write slower character-driven pieces (Robin Hobb, Daniel Abraham, etc).
Asimov apparently had aphantasia (inability to visualize in your head, which I sympathize since I suck at it), so he isn't much of a visuals guy at all, and he can't really write women well either. And his prose is very...basic. Despite all this, he's one of the huge scifi guys, a big ideas guy. Dude can really chuck out a great short story especially, which is really what the core Foundation novels were, a collection of short stories.
This looks more like the Prelude to/Forward the Foundation era stuff. I hope they don't screw this up, because I love the Foundation books. I think the Robot novels would have been safer, come on guys, how hard is it to screw up a humanity-lives-in-domed-cities, hardboiled detective story were he has a robot for a partner? And you could always do Foundation later.
Personally I think End of Eternity would make a great film or series too. There's a lot of great golden age scifi stuff that could be mined for good projects, and for that reason alone I hope they don't screw this up. Foundation as a movie or a TV show has been a classic zombie project for decades.
Asimov apparently had aphantasia (inability to visualize in your head, which I sympathize since I suck at it), so he isn't much of a visuals guy at all, and he can't really write women well either. And his prose is very...basic. Despite all this, he's one of the huge scifi guys, a big ideas guy. Dude can really chuck out a great short story especially, which is really what the core Foundation novels were, a collection of short stories.
This looks more like the Prelude to/Forward the Foundation era stuff. I hope they don't screw this up, because I love the Foundation books. I think the Robot novels would have been safer, come on guys, how hard is it to screw up a humanity-lives-in-domed-cities, hardboiled detective story were he has a robot for a partner? And you could always do Foundation later.
Personally I think End of Eternity would make a great film or series too. There's a lot of great golden age scifi stuff that could be mined for good projects, and for that reason alone I hope they don't screw this up. Foundation as a movie or a TV show has been a classic zombie project for decades.