A new teaser trailer foretells a new, long-awaited Isaac Asimov adaptation.
The upcoming TV show Foundation, based on the author’s landmark SF book series, is set to premiere on the subscription service Apple TV+ next year.
The new trailer features Chernobyl’s Jared Harris as Hari Seldon. In the first book, Seldon is introduced as the creator of a new science called psychohistory, which makes predicting the future possible. His assertion that the ruling Galactic Empire is headed for a collapse, followed by a dark age, is deeply unpopular with those in power; as a result, he’s exiled to a remote planet where he plans to spearhead the creation of a massive encyclopedia of all human knowledge.
The series will also feature Halt and Catch Fire’s Lee Pace, and Terrence Mann, best known as Javert in the original Broadway production of Les Misérables.
Asimov’s Foundation Series began as series of short stories, published in the magazine Astounding Science Fiction in the early 1940s, and collected in the novel Foundation (1951) and two sequels. The author later expanded the trilogy with four more installments, beginning with Foundation’s Edge (1981); the final prequel, Forward the Foundation, was published in 1993, a year after the author’s death.
The teaser begins with some brief, behind-the-scenes production footage, featuring a voiceover by executive producer and co-writer David S. Goyer; he previously worked on such films as The Dark Knight and Terminator: Dark Fate, and co-wrote a trilogy of novels that concluded with 2013’s Heaven’s Fall. Saladin Ahmed, who wrote the Kirkus-starred and Hugo Award-nominated 2012 fantasy novel Throne of the Crescent Moon, is also credited as a writer on the new series.
David Rapp is the senior Indie editor.
