The Batman trilogy screenwriter, who is set to direct HBO's pilot 'Westworld', will write and produce a TV series based on Isaac Asimov's sci-fi novels.
- Nov 11, 2014
AceShowbiz - Jonathan Nolan is working on another project for HBO. The Oscar-nominated screenwriter is teaming up with the premium cable channel and Warner Bros. TV to turn Isaac Asimov's "Foundation" trilogy into a TV series.
Nolan, who is the brother of acclaimed director Chris Nolan, has reportedly been developing the project for the last several months. He is on board as writer and producer. HBO and WBTV have not commented on the news first reported by TheWrap, but Nolan previously expressed his love for the sci-fi novels.
"Well, I f***ing love the 'Foundation' novels by Isaac Asimov. They're certainly not [unknown], but that's a set of books I think everyone would benefit from reading. That's a set of books where the influence they have is just fucking massive. They have many imitators and many have been inspired by them, but go back and read those, and there are some ideas in those that'll set your fucking hair on fire," he told Indiewire.
"Foundation" centers on Hari Seldon, a mathematician and psychologist, who has developed psychohistory, a new field of science and psychology that equates all possibilities in large societies to mathematics, allowing for the prediction of future events.
The "Foundation" trilogy, which consisted of "Foundation", "Foundation and Empire" and "Second Foundation", won a Hugo Award for Best All-Time series in 1966. Asimov followed it up with two more sequels, "Foundation's Edge" and "Foundation and Earth", as well as prequels "Prelude to Foundation" and "Forward the Foundation".
Nolan has signed up to write and direct HBO drama pilot "Westworld", which is executive produced by J.J. Abrams, Jerry Weintraub and Bryan Burk. James Marsden, Anthony Hopkins, Evan Rachel Wood, Jeffrey Wright and Shannon Woodward star in the TV adaptation of Michael Crichton's 1973 film.
