Of course, this makes some people rather nervous, not the least of which is Hari, who’s not only smart enough to invent a new kind of science, but also to know how the people in power will react to it.īut while the novels are decidedly hard science-fiction stories, short on action and long on intellect, Apple+’s description of Foundation makes it sound like the show might be a bit less literary.

Set in the far future, the show, like the novels, will follow as Hari Seldon ( Jared Harris, pictured), the inventor of a new predictive science called psychohistory, who uses it to try and both slow and limit the impact of what he sees as the inevitable collapse of the Galactic Empire. In the intro to the show’s first teaser trailer, Goyer noted that, “People have been trying to make Foundation for over 50 years,” and that “…the story is sprawling, unfolds over the course of a thousand years.” Ironically, the show’s second trailer makes Foundation look a bit like the upcoming Dune movie, which is also based on a sprawling, multi-year sci-fi novel people have been trying (and usually failing) to bring to screens for years. The series is coming from Skydance Television, which previously produced the Netflix series Altered Carbon (which, not coincidentally, was also based on a classic sci-fi novel). Goyer, with familial assistance from Asimov’s daughter Robyn Asimov. Slated to debut on September 24, the 10-episode show Foundation will be overseen by frequent Christopher Nolan collaborator David S. Now, after a few false starts, Asimov’s influential trilogy is finally making its way to television courtesy of Apple+ and some familiar names. Not only can you see its influence in Star Trek and Star Wars, but elements of it have even turned up in Futurama. In the 70-plus years since Isaac Asimov published his epic 1951 science fiction novel Foundation and its sequels - 1952’s Foundation and Empire and 1953’s Second Foundation - this space opera has inspired numerous movies and TV shows (and games, and comics, and other novels…).

Foundation trilogy