David S. Goyer's Series Adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s FOUNDATION Ordered By Apple
A few months ago we learned that David S. Goyer (Dark Knight trilogy, Man of Steel, Batman v Superman) was developing a series adaptation of Isaac Asimov's incredible sci-fi book trilogy Foundation. Today we've learned from Variety that Apple has officially ordered the series.
The show will revolve around the thousand year saga of the Foundation, "a band of exiles who discover that the only way to save the Galactic Empire from destruction is to defy it."
Asimov’s Foundation was originally published as a short story series for Astounding Magazine in 1942. The complex saga tells the story of humans that are scattered on planets throughout the galaxy, and all of them are living under the rule of the Galactic Empire. The main character "is a psycho-historian who has an ability to read the future and foresees the empire’s imminent collapse. He sets out to save the knowledge of mankind from being wiped out."
Goyer will serve as the series showrunner alongside Josh Friedman. This could easily be Apple's most ambitious project yet. There's such a vast universe in these stories and it's going to be interesting and cool to see how Goyer and Friedman handle bringing these stories and characters to life. I really hope that the series manages to capture the epicness of it all. Here's the description from the first book:
For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Sheldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future--to a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge and save mankind, Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empire--both scientists and scholars--and brings them to a bleak planet at the edge of the Galaxy to serve as a beacon of hope for a fututre generations. He calls his sanctuary the Foundation.
But soon the fledgling Foundation finds itself at the mercy of corrupt warlords rising in the wake of the receding Empire. Mankind's last best hope is faced with an agonizing choice: submit to the barbarians and be overrun--or fight them and be destroyed.
Do you think that Goyer and Friedman will do Foundation justice as they adapt it into a series?