It looks like the whole streaming service battle thing is getting another major player as Apple puts a series order one one of the world’s most ambitious sci-fi tales.
Isaac Asimov’s Foundation has gotten a ten episode order from the company with Blade’s David S Goyer and War of the Worlds writer Josh Friedman executive producing as well as being joint showrunners.
The premise of the series is that the mathematician Hari Seldon spent his life developing a branch of mathematics known as psychohistory, a concept of mathematical sociology. Using the laws of mass action, it can predict the future, but only on a large scale. Seldon foresees the imminent fall of the Galactic Empire, which encompasses the entire Milky Way, and a dark age lasting 30,000 years before a second great empire arises. Seldon’s calculations also show there is a way to limit this interregnum to just one thousand years. To ensure the more favorable outcome and reduce human misery during the intervening period, Seldon creates the Foundation – a group of talented artisans and engineers positioned at the twinned extreme ends of the galaxy – to preserve and expand on humanity’s collective knowledge, and thus become the foundation for the accelerated resurgence of this new galactic empire.
The series isn’t Apple’s only high-concept idea as they are developing a thriller from M Night Shyamalan, a sci-fi series from BSG’s Ron Moore and a Time Bandits adaptation.
We’ll keep you posted as we get more.
Source: Deadline
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