Foundation cast: who stars in Apple's adaptation?Ī number of established stars and newcomers have been cast for Foundation: Given that the footage so far, however, we suspect that the prequel book may not be utilized at all.

It’s unclear if season 1 will deal with Prelude to Foundation, the book series’ first prequel novel, which explores the backstory of key Foundation players including Seldon. “Game of Thrones was one of the first to do a giant novelistic show and now, with Foundation, we can hopefully the story over 80 episodes, or 80 hours, as opposed to trying to condense it down into a two or three-hour film.” “The audience is changing the way that we’re consuming stories,” Goyer told LovinMalta. What unfolds is a complex, interweaving saga and, due to its convoluted plot, Goyer has already hinted that it will take multiple seasons to tell Foundation’s vast story. Unbeknownst to the Empire's overlords, however, Seldon secretly creates a second Foundation at the opposite end of the galaxy for mysterious purposes. 'All we know is that Salvor Hardin has a very special relationship to the Vault.' 'We'll definitely find out what's in the Vault in the season, although there are other mysteries to reveal about the Vault in later seasons,' Goyer teased. This mysterious floating object is mentioned in Asimov's novels (and greets Seldon's party on Terminus in Apple's adaptation) and, as Goyer revealed to Entertainment Weekly, it might hold the key to some of the show's biggest secrets. Traveling to a new world in Terminus may present problems for Seldon's contingent, however and that includes something known as the Vault. There, the assembled humans are tasked with preserving an anthology of humanity’s knowledge – the Encyclopedia Galactica – so that, at the end of the millennium, a second Empire may begin. Seldon, though, reveals that he has foreseen an alternate path that allows the intervening period to be reduced to 1,000 years if certain criteria are met.Īt the behest of the Empire’s reluctant rulers, Seldon creates the Foundation – a group of the greatest living scientists, engineers, and historians – which travels to a remote planet known as Terminus. The series initially follows Hari Seldon, a mathematical genius who explains that, unless humanity changes course, the Galactic Empire will fall and be followed by a 30,000-year period of turmoil before a second Empire rises.

The US author’s series is made up of seven books, with the core trilogy – Foundation, Foundation and Empire, and Second Foundation – comprising eight short stories that, after being released individually, were published as three collections in the early 1950s.Īccording to Apple TV’s synopsis, Foundation “chronicles a band of exiles on their monumental journey to save humanity and rebuild civilization amid the fall of the Galactic Empire”.

Foundation is a compendium of sci-fi novels written by Isaac Asimov.

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