Asimov's Foundation Film(s)
Apart from the bit where he says it'll be 3 film, this doesn't sound to promising:
I'd be more excited if they were making the Lije Bailey books into films. The Foundation stories struck me as being more political than action which suggests the film won't be anything like the books.
I still think 3D is just a gimmick and found the 3D in Avatar a distraction from the film rather than a benefit. I'l be sad to see them all go the way of 3D.
Damn right, it's just like this colour thing, it'll never last 
Until I can walk into the film and goose the actors, I'm not going to be impressed.
They were doing 3D films in the 1950s. They tried again in the 1980s and again in the 2010s, so it's not caught on like colour did, just cycles round every 30 years or so.
What kinds 3D did they have in the 50s?
Dial M For Murder
It came from outer space
Bwana devil
creature from the black lagoon
House of Wax
Kiss Me Kate
Miss Sadie Thompson
The Three Stooges in "Spooks"
were all in 3D
It was the old red/green as opposed to the polarisation you get nowadays.
Audience from the 1950s
In fact, it goes back further even than that
1890 British 3D pioneer William Friese-Greene files a patent for the first 3D motion pictures. His idea is for a stereoscope machine that rushes two strips of film through in synchronisation. The invention is successful but ignored for mass market because of being impractical for large scale theatre use.
1915 The first 3D test reels for the cinema are produced by Edwin S. Porter and William E. Waddelland and screened to an audience at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York. The footage is of oriental dancing girls and Niagara Falls amongst other performances and presented using the red/green glasses to decipher it. The tests come to nothing in the way of further production.
1922 The Power of Love, the first feature film in 3D, is screened at the Ambassador Hotel Theatre in Los Angeles. The 3D images are produced by using two film strips projected on top of one another - one using reds, the other greens - which are then viewed using the the anaglyph colour filter glasses.
Tthere you go, invented 1890, first film 1920, golden age 1950, next attempt 1980, and again 2010.
A definite 30 year cycle.
Well I never knew that, I though the red & green specs that came with the Radio Times in the 80's were the 1st instance of 3Ding
Well I never knew that, I though the red & green specs that came with the Radio Times in the 80's were the 1st instance of 3Ding
That was just when they'd updated the older technology to work with TV cameras rather than just movie cameras. Each time 3D has come back it's been as a result of some kind of leap in the technology.
The red/green or red/blue stuff never caught on because, whilst you got a passable 3D effect, the actual picture looked crap because you couldn't show proper colours. This time around the leap is due to 2 things - the whole polarisation thing rather the red/green technique, which makes for a better picture, and digital recording, which makes it much much easier to film something in 3D in the first place.
> I still think 3D is just a gimmick and found the 3D in Avatar a distraction from the film rather than a benefit. I'l be sad to see them all go the way of 3D.
I think with 3D films still being fairly uncommon and the technology progressing there's a tendency for the films to be pushes of "look at what we've done" - same as when CGI started to get used (and then overused in certain cases) or other advances in effects, if most/all films were in 3D I doubt there'd be the same urge to have whole scenes merely to show off the 3D and you'd find things wouldn't be that different.
I could be wrong however.
