http://www.filmshaft.com/roland-emmeric ... ndation-2/Roland Emmerich Discusses Plans For Foundation
By: Martyn Conterio
It’s been known for a good while that Roland Emmerich has finished destroying the planet and is heading for the stars. Foundation will be a 3D spectacular and is based on the works of sci-fi legend, Issac Asimov. Empire recently got word on the German “auteur of earthly carnage” and got the heads up on what’s going down. Emmerich confirms the script has been written by Saving Private Ryan scribe, Robert Rodat:
“We’ve got a script from Robert Rodat now and it’s 240 pages long! I said, ‘You know what guys? Edit it down to at least under 200 pages.’”
Emmerich has major plans for this film and seeing Avatar finally convinced him to start working on it. The film will utilise motion capture technology, will be fully CG, as well as presented in eye-popping 3D. It looks like Emmerich is aiming for the stars!
“I’m really into it. I worked with Bob on the story for weeks, sitting in a room trying to figure out how to make all the loose stories and put them in a box called ‘Foundation’. Bob’s perfect for this thing – he also knows as a writer he has to find the hero and a bad guy in the piece. We had to come up with characters that go through , which is very hard.”
No doubt Emmerich will find time to destroy at least a few planets…if it gets the green light.
Roland Emmerich Puts Foundation On The Back Burner, Thank Goodness
Is Roland Emmerich really going to adapt Isaac Asimov's Foundation books? Maybe, but he's doing another movie first. And he's making the writer rewrite the script so the movie will have "a hero" and "a bad guy." Minor spoilers ahead.
Emmerich is going ahead with his next movie project — Anonymous, which is based on the longstanding theory that Shakespeare's plays were actually written by the 17th Earl Of Oxford. He already has Vanessa Redgrave, David Thewlis and Rhys Ifans signed up to star.
So what about Foundation? Emmerich tells Empire Magazine that he might do the Asimov adaptation after Anonymous, but it depends on the script, which is currently being written by his The Patriot screenwriter, Robert Rodat. He says the script is "240 pages long! I said, ‘You know what guys? Edit it down to at least under 200 pages.'"
But he adds that he's enthusiastic about the material, which he wants to do entirely in CG and 3-D motion-capture:
I'm really into it. I worked with Bob on the story for weeks, sitting in a room trying to figure out how to make all the loose stories [work] and put them in a box called ‘Foundation'. Bob's perfect for this thing - he also knows as a writer he has to find the hero and a bad guy in the piece. We had to come up with characters that go through [the series], which is very hard.
So are you more horrified by Emmerich's description of his ideas for a Foundation script, or more relieved that he's not going to get to it any time soon?
Denny Crane 
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=64675Smith Locked for Two More Independence Day Movies?
Source: IESB March 30, 2010
IESB is reporting a rumor that Will Smith has signed a deal with 20th Century Fox to make two Independence Day sequels that would be shot back-to-back.
According to the site's source, if all goes according to plan, the sequel(s) could shoot as early as 2011. Roland Emmerich would again direct after his Shakespeare drama Anonymous. The films would start after Smith completes his next project, which could either be Men in Black 3 or The City That Sailed.
The original film earned $817.4 million worldwide ($306 million domestic and $511.2 million overseas) in 1996.
Denny Crane 
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