Isaac Asimov's Foundation looks to be made into a movie form. I found these fan-based summary of Isaac's Foundation tonight, and so, I thought I'd make a post of them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xaoy44kauM0
This video is made to be the fourth video, but I put it first because Isaac made a Prelude to Foundation in the 1980s(three decades after he wrote Foundation, and four decades after I Robot and Caves of Steel). In Prelude to Foundation, it's revealed that the Galactic empire is kept going from all the Human kings bad decisions through the aeons by a Eto Demerzil. Eto Demerzil turns out to be an ancient robot, Daneel Olivaw, that we first meet in "Caves of Steel."
Caves of Steel is a Robot novel after I Robot, but fitting in quite well with an idea of humanity using A.I. Robots to deal with an increasingling complex technological world of space science and technology in general. So, I put this fourth video first.
- Episode 2 - Foundation: Fall and Rise of the Galactic Empires
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dalEPCHmvhY
This video is pretty pointing out the background and plot of the first Foundation book. So, I'm not going to give much more commentary here.
- Episode 3 - Foundation: The Mule's Conquest of the Galaxy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmWBiwYbTto&t=106s
I don't know of a George Lucas quote that Star Wars was based on Foundation; but, many times, i'm seen people saying this. Here, with the Mule, we can see a major analogy. The Mule represents the dark side of the force. The Foundation represents the good side of the force - reason.
I grew up liking the first book, and not really liking the whole mule thing. i came to say the Mule is a literary device to keep the story going. Foundation had won, and if Isaac wanted to write more Foundation books, he needed an out.
Also, another thing I didn't like about the Mule was the mind reading. It's said Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke are the best two "hard" sci-fi. But, I had always said mind reading was impossible, and Arthur C. Clarke was the real technical hard sci fi writer.
But, outside of "Against the Fall of Night/City and the Stars", and 2001, and numerious short stories, Arthur C. Clarek uses all kinds of weird stuff. Like in 3001, he has a talking Raptor dinosaur house keeper. This was late in life, I suppose.
Still, today, mind reading A.I. is becoming possible. There are possibilities of space-warp through quantum entanglement(although, even with the growing quantum computer technologies, spacewarp vehicles, and Star Trek "beam me up scotty" technology is hard engineering). Overall, a lot of science speculation of Isaac Asimov is becoming more possible than Arthur C. Clarke's. I probably need to re-read all these to collect a talley of right/wrong future predictions.
- Episode 4 - Foundation: Fall of The Mule
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YPrCS_26IQ
- In the first Foundation book, Isaac is pretty much pro-science. In the fourth and five books respectively, "Foundation and Empire" and "Foundation and Earth" he goes back and forth on science and humanity.