Last summer it was announced that Skydance Television had picked up the rights to Isaac Asimov’s classic sci-fi trilogy Foundation, tapping David S. Goyer (Da Vinci’s Demons) and Josh Friedman (Emerald City) to develop a TV adaptation.
Originally launching as a series of short stories in Astounding Magazine beginning in 1942, Foundation follows a psycho-historian living under the rule of the Galactic Empire who foresees its imminent collapse and sets out to preserve mankind’s knowledge by assembling a group of talented artisans and engineers to serve as the foundation for a new society.
Foundation becomes the latest acquisition for Apple, which has snapped up a host of original programming for its streaming service, including the Octavia Spencer-headlined drama Are You Sleeping, Steven Knight and Francis Lawrence’s See, a Damien Chazelle series, a Ronald D. Moore space drama, a morning TV show drama starring Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston, a Kristen Wiig comedy, Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon’s Little America, a reboot of Amazing Stories, the animated series Central Park, and a thriller series from M. Night Shyamalan.
