Emmerich is Going Motion Capture for the Foundation Trilogy

Although I'd love to see that Independence Day sequel, it looks like director Roland Emmerich will be moving on to direct Isaac Asimov's Foundation trilogy. It was first announced last January that Emmerich would be bringing this beloved sci-fi series to the big screen and although we've written about it since then, we haven't learned much else about his plans until now. Emmerich tells MTV that "the Avatar technology applies to Foundation… It has to be done all CG because I would not know how to shoot this thing in real." So will it be motion capture kind of like Avatar (or probably A Christmas Carol)? The answer is: Yes.

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