Roland Emmerich told ComingSoon.net at Comic-Con that Oscar-nominated writer Robert Rodat (SAVING PRIVATE RYAN) will adapt Isaac Asimov's sci-fi epic FOUNDATION.
"FOUNDATION is my first attempt to do a series of movies, because we're developing three movies: FOUNDATION, FOUNDATION AND EMPIRE and SECOND FOUNDATION," he told ComingSoon. "It took me a long time to actually wait for the moment where the rights were totally free and we got them all, it's like 11 books, and we own the title FOUNDATION and also some of the robot novels and now we can really do these. I just hired a very good writer, the writer of SAVING PRIVATE RYAN who wrote THE PATRIOT for me and he's incredible. He is the most knowledgeable person I ever met about the FOUNDATION novels. It's great to write with somebody like that because there's no, 'I'll just look in the book and see what's there'... he knows it. I had a certain idea and he had a certain idea and that together I think will make this a movie."
Emmerich did not specify whether FOUNDATION will indeed be his next film, as the script is not done yet.
