{"id":16321,"date":"2011-09-23T07:14:15","date_gmt":"2011-09-23T12:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=16321"},"modified":"2018-12-09T00:55:24","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T05:55:24","slug":"fox-adapting-asimovs-the-caves-of-steel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/23\/fox-adapting-asimovs-the-caves-of-steel\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox Adapting Asimov’s ‘The Caves Of Steel’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Twentieth Century Fox will be adapting Isaac Asimov’sclassic science-fiction murder mystery The Caves Of Steel<\/strong>. Henry Hobson has been assigned to direct the film while John Scott 3 is writing the screenplay. The project will be the second teaming of the two who are currently in pre-production on the zombie film Maggie.<\/p>\n

First serialized in Galaxy magazine in 1953 and then published in book form in 1954, The Caves Of Steel<\/em> is set in some three thousand years in the future where everyone on Earth lives in cities that are covered by vast steel domes resulting in a population that suffers from extreme agoraphobia. Following the murder of an ambassador from one of the off-world Earth colonies, detective Elijah Baley is assigned to track down the killer. He is given a partner, R. Daneel Olivaw, a nearly perfect humanoid robot. The problem is that Baley shares the common Earther prejudices against robots.<\/p>\n

Asimov wrote the novel in part due to a conversation he had with editor John Campbell who stated that science-fiction and mystery were two genres that couldn’t be combined. The novel is now considered one of the classics in science-fiction and an important work for its broadening the scope of what could be written about in the genre.\u00a0 It is also a keystone of Asimov’s Robot series of short stories and books.<\/p>\n

Previously, Fox had done a very loose adaption of Asimov’s short story collection I, Robot<\/em>, which outside of a few names and a passing acknowledgement of Asimov’s “Three Laws of Robotics,” had nothing really to do with the book. The failing there was trying to find a narrative thread to link those stories, although an attempt to adapt the book into a screenplay in the late 1970s by writer Harlan Ellison managed the trick. (Ellison published his screenplay in 1994.)<\/p>\n

Via Deadline<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The science fiction-mystery classic is heading towards the big screen.<\/div>\n

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