Sci-fi movies let filmmakers make truly creative movies by thinking outside the bounds of our time and societies, and there are plenty more ground-breaking stories waiting on bookshelves for a chance to be explored on screen. The recent success of Denis Villeneuve’s 2021 Dune, an adaptation of Frank Herbert’s space epic, shows that even the most complex and lore-heavy sci-fi books can be translated well on screen, and sci-fi settings make for particularly awe-inspiring visuals. Although 2022 saw a sci-fi slump, there are many books that could get the industry back on track, with ideas that would make for fantastic movies. As well as new success stories like Dune, some of the best sci-fi movies were adapted from classic books. Both Blade Runner and Total Recall were based on Philip K Dick’s works (though given catchier titles), while HG Wells, George Orwell, Isaac Asimov, and sci-fi pioneer Mary Shelley were also among the giants of literature to have seen their novels adapted. Sci-fi literature tells readers things about themselves, and makes them ask questions about their society, technology, and what the future could hold. Adapting them can create exciting, subversive, and thought-provoking films.
Please, lets forget Asimov.
Apple already sodomized Foundation without lubricant and not even bothering for curtecy reacharound.
I don’t want to see more of his work spoiled by money hungry tv execs.
Oh please, spare me this crap. I love asimov and have read foundation multiple times. Asimov had great ideas but he was terrible at characters with more than one dimension and wrote stilted, lifeless dialogue
Add in the fact that in the first two books every crisis is solved by a seldon deus ex machina and the actions of individual characters really have zero effect as it has all been forseen by psychohistory.
A page for page adaptation of Foundation would be boring as batshit to a modern audience steeped in 50 years of mainstream SF.