There was no way I could not mention about the new Asimov movie on the Foundation Series. My childhood, game characters, and this blog has been influenced through the writings of Asimov’s many books, primarily the Foundations and Robots book series. And though oddly the plan is to make the Foundation Series movies first over the Robots and Empire Series (if at all), I actually made the same mistake and read the series in the reverse order as well.

Though Hari Seldon and Dors Venabili are the main and well-regarded characters from the whole series overall,  the one character that most fascinated me was the enigmatic humaniform robot by the name of R. Daneel Olivaw (seen in the picture to the left from the book Caves of Steel). In particular, it was in the Foundation Series with R. Daneel Olivaw as Demerzel that I empathize with from childhood and use for many of my game-playing characters around the net from playing chess on a Telnet FIC, to a mud-based text game called Sanity’s Edge, all the way up to World of Warcraft.

There are a couple of blogs out there with as much focus around the character of Demerzel (Demerzel’s Echoes), gaming profiles (Navigator Demerzel), computer names (computer Demerzel), social media profiles (Sphinn Demerzel), and art drawings (Eto Demerzel art).

I will be anxiously waiting to see who will make up the cast and of course who will be playing the role of the humanoid, R. Daneel Olivaw. I would not be surprised to see Will Smith in there somewhere as well as he seems to enjoy having roles in many of the latest science fiction movies.

SFF Media was the first on the scene with the news about having a movie on the Foundation Series and I am sure more will come as lately many sci-fi films from the major sci-fi writers have been doing well enough for sequels. Here’s the details so far:

New Line founders Bob Shaye and Michael Lynne are developing an adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s 1951 novel Foundation, the first in Asimov’s classic space opera saga. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Shaye said, “our idea is to renew the worldwide audience’s appetite for the story” but he added that it is a complex novel, “this is not a script you can knock out in six months.” Shaye and Lynne plan to adapt the first book, but if the first Foundation movie is successful, aim to create an entire new Foundation movie trilogy just as New Line did with Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings.

Good things will certainly come from this as New Line knows what it is doing.