Issac Asimov’s Foundation Series books is seeing the daylight in the form of a TV series created by David S Goyer and Josh Friedman. David is an American filmmaker, novelist and comic book writer. He is most famous as Writer, Co-writer and Director for his works in Blade Trilogy, Christopher Nolan’s Batman Trilogy, Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel, Batman Vs Superman: Dawn of Jusice and Tim Miller’s Terminator Dark Fate. Josh Friedman is an American screenwriter and television producer most famous for his works on Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Steven Spielberg’s War Of The Worlds, The Black Dahlia, Terminator Dark Fate, TNT series Snowpiercer and James Cameron Avatar 2. David and Josh have also written episodes for Foundation as well. Rupert Sanders, Jennifer Phang and Roxann Dawson are Directors. Executive Producers of the show are David S. Goyer, David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, Marcy Ross and Robyn Asimov. The series is set to premiere in August 2021.
Jared Harris as Hari Seldon, Lee Pace as Brother Day, Emperor of the Galaxy
Lou Llobell as Gaal Dornick, Leah Harvey as Salvor Hardin
Laura Birn as Eto Demerzel, Cassian Bilton as Brother Dawn
Terrence Mann as Brother Dusk, Kubbra Sait as Phara,
Nikhil Parmar as Freestone, Mido Hamada as Shadow Master Obrecht.
Foundation
The Foundation novel series is a science fiction book series written by American author Isaac Asimov. It was first published as a set of short stories from 1942 to 1950. From 1951 to 1953, the series was a trilogy titled ‘Foundation’, ‘Foundation and Empire’ and ‘Second Foundation’. This series was one of his most famous works and it won him the one-time Hugo Award for “Best All-Time Series” in 1966. In 1981 Asimov added two sequels- ‘Foundation’s Edge’ and ‘Foundation and Earth’ and two prequels- ‘Prelude to Foundation’ and ‘Forward the Foundation’. These new additions made references to events that happened in two other novel series of Asimov, the ‘Robot’ series and ‘Galactic Empire’ series, thus revealing that the events of all three series are connected as it happens in the same fictional universe.
The Foundation series is set on the stories of the declining age of a Galactic Empire in the futuristic era. The character Hari Seldon is a mathematician who developed a new effective mathematical sociology- the Theory of Psychohistory. This theory uses statistical laws of mass action to predict the future of large populations. Using this theory, he foresees the forthcoming destruction of the Empire along with the entire Milky Way. A Dark Age lasting 30,000 years just before a Second Empire emerges. Even though the force of the Empire’s destruction is too powerful to stop, a deflection can be devised.
So, he figures out a plan to gradually limit the gap to one thousand years before the approaching mass of events hits the empire. Hari Seldon creates these Foundations at opposite ends of the galaxy as part of this plan. Each Foundation comprises of a group of Scientists and Engineers. This core group would be entrusted the responsibility to preserve the Spirit of Science and Civilisation, thereby becoming the cornerstones of the new galactic empire.
About the Author Issac Asimov
Issac Asimov was a Professor of Biochemistry at
Boston University. He was also a writer of novels and short stories. He was
very popular for his stories based on science fiction and popular science. With
over 500 books of literary works as both writer and editor, he also had a record
of 90,000 letters and postcards to his name. In 1964, his social science
fiction novelette ‘Nightfall’ was voted the ‘Best Short Science Fiction Story
of All Time’ by the ‘Science Fiction Writers of America’. Using the pen name of
‘Paul French’, he wrote the Lucky Starr series of juvenile science fiction
novels.
He worked with Robert
A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke and together they were known as the ‘Big
Three’ science fiction writers of their lifetime. His most famous work is the
‘Foundation’ series. Other works include ‘Galactic Empire’ series and the
‘Robot’ series. He linked the history of the fictional universe between the
‘Foundation’ and ‘Galactic Empire’ series. Later, in 1986, he added ‘Foundation
and Earth’ to the ‘Foundation’ series and linked the futuristic eras to the
‘Robot’ series, making all three series share the same unified futuristic
history. This inter series story sharing was pioneered by Robert A. Heinlein
whose stories were produced by Cordwainer Smith and Poul Anderson.
Foundation
Film and TV Adaptations
New Line Cinema was working on a film version of the Foundation Trilogy but having failed to develop a franchise by 1998, the studio went on to produce ‘The Lord of the Rings’ trilogy.
In 2008, Warner Brothers worked with Unique
Pictures who employed Bob Shaye and Michael Lynne, co-founders of New Line
Cinema, to produce the trilogy. But in 2009 Columbia Pictures (Sony) won the
rights for the screen adaptation and hired Roland Emmerich and Michael Wimer as
Producer and Co-Producer. In 2011 the studio contracted Dante Harper to adapt
the books for the big screen. However, this project did not carry further and
it was reported by The Wrap in 2014 that HBO won the rights and Jonathan Nolan
was hired to write and produce the Foundation Trilogy TV series.
In 2017, Deadline reported that Skydance Media will produce the Foundation TV series. In 2018 Apple officially begun a 10 episode straight-to-series order. In 2019, Josh Friedman left the project as co-writer and co-showrunner. This was as discussed earlier among the producers, that either Friedman or screenwriter David Goyer would leave while the other remained to run the show. From 13 March 2020 to 6 October 2020, all active filming of Apple TV+ shows were stopped by Apple due to Covid-19 virus pandemic outbreak. At the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference on 22 June 2020, Tim Cook officially announced that Apple TV+ would premiere the Foundation TV series in 2021. With a budget of $50 million, the series would be filmed at Troy Studios, Limerick, Ireland. In February it was announced that the first season of Foundation TV series would premiere in August 2021.
Here is the Foundation TV series trailer for Apple TV from Movie Trailers Source Youtube channel
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