Director Roland "2012" Emmerich will direct a film adaptation of author Issac Asimov's "Foundation" for Columbia Pictures.Emmerich and his Centropolis partner Michael Wimer will produce the film.
Originally published as a series of eight short stories in "Astounding Magazine", starting in 1942, "Foundation" is a about humans scattered on planets throughout the galaxy, living under the rule of the 'Galactic Empire', when a 'psycho-historian' sees the empire collapsing and prepares to save the knowledge of mankind.
Emmerich and Wimer just completed Vancouver-lensed "2012", aka "Farewell Atlantis" at Sony...
