DISQUS

Filmonic: Roland Emmerich directing Foundation trilogy

  • Outtahere · 9 months ago
    What an insanely bad idea. Let's take a man who gave us such breaindead creations as Godzilla, 10,000 BC, or Independence Day, and put him at the helm of the greatest epic in the history of science fiction. This is an undertaking that requires talent, subtlety, and intelligence. Putting Emmerich in charge is akin to having a butcher perform plastic surgery. No offense to the butchers, of course.
  • Paul Levinson · 8 months ago
    I don't think we should be so quick to judge what Emmerich will do here ... meanwhile, here's a podcast that discusses how the Foundation trilogy responds to Laplace's Demon, or the proposition that, given sufficient knowledge of all conditions, we can know everything about the future...