bnt wrote: » Teaser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgbPSA94Rqg
Agent Coulson wrote: » Jared Harris starring that will do me I'm in.
pixelburp wrote: » Never read the original work so no idea how that trailer's tone stacks against the novel(s). David Goyer gives pause but hard to deny how cinematic that all looks. Big swing from Apple, while Goyer's waxing poetic about them in that first video was super nauseating. Wonder how Apple+ is doing; a splashy SciFi opera will be expensive.
Isaac Asimov wrote: I hadn't read the Trilogy in thirty years and while I remembered the general plot, I did not remember the details. Besides, before beginning a new Foundation novel I had to immerse myself in the style and atmosphere of the series. I read it with mounting uneasiness. I kept waiting for something to happen, and nothing ever did. All three volumes, all the nearly quarter of a million words, consisted of thoughts and of conversations. No action. No physical suspense. What was all the fuss about, then? Why did everyone want more of that stuff? – To be sure, I couldn't help but notice that I was turning the pages eagerly, and that I was upset when I finished the book, and that I wanted more, but I was the author, for goodness' sake. You couldn't go by me. I was on the edge of deciding it was all a terrible mistake and of insisting on giving back the money, when (quite by accident, I swear) I came across some sentences by science-fiction writer and critic, James Gunn, who, in connection with the Foundation series, said, "Action and romance have little to do with the success of the Trilogy – virtually all the action takes place offstage, and the romance is almost invisible – but the stories provide a detective-story fascination with the permutations and reversals of ideas."
Niska wrote: » Trailer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZd3xUDudy8
Judge wrote: » Is that the Long Room in Trinity College at 0:14? Looks like they're adapting the prelude books rather than the original trilogy.:mad:
pixelburp wrote: » Wonder how Apple+ is doing; a splashy SciFi opera will be expensive.
Agent Coulson wrote: » The series is filmed in Limerick so it well could be.
Slydice wrote: » Wasn't some parts of Nightflyers made down there? Some kinda scifi studio been set up?
icdg wrote: » Very hard to tell for certain with no figures. I wager a very large portion of viewers are on that one year free trial, seemingly a large chunk of people with the entitlement haven’t even taken it up. I’m enjoying (on such a free trial) the Morning Show, but haven’t watched anything else. Aside from Fraggle Rock, they have no bought in shows and are in dire need of a back catalogue to attract subscribers.
Agent Coulson wrote: » Yes the same studio. Virtual tour on there websitehttp://troystudios.ie/
JimmyVik wrote: » Any news on this?
New trailer's up. Rather impressive.
Can only repeat my previous thoughts that it looks pretty spectacular; unless that was all from the first episode and the rest is in one quarry 😁 24th September release, so not long to go.
Any Asimov fans know how accurate this looks against the original novels?
Hard to tell. I thought the trailer for A Brave New World looked great, and that turned out to be pants. It looks decent, but nothing what I imagined from the book.
The only sci-fi book I'm waiting on now for one of the streaming giants to give a bash is The Hyperion Cantos.
All the ingredients look in place.. but they are just trailers so let's see how they baked the cake
In the original serials that became the first book, Asimov gave very little in the way of visual cues. Trantor is described as completely covered with buildings, with more of it dug down than built up. You can see some of this in some parts of the trailer, such as the circular trenches around the circular building at 0:37, which I believe is the transit centre at the base of the Space Elevator that Gall Dornik travels down on. The only greenery is the palace grounds seen at 0:50, 100 square miles in size, the only area on the planet not built over.
The later prequel Prelude To Foundation goes in to much more detail about other parts of Trantor, set years earlier when Hari Seldon was much younger, but I don't know whether the series draws on that at all. In the trailers I've seen so far I've seen nothing to contradict Asimov's thin descriptions of places: detailed "world building" like e.g. Tolkien wasn't his thing in his early books.
First 2 episodes out this Friday!
Very much looking forward to this.
