Re: [NEWS] Asimov's 'Foundation' teaser trailer (Apple TV+)

On 23 Jun 2020, Your Name wrote
(in article <[email protected]>):

>
> From ComingSoon.net ...
>
> Foundation teaser previews first-look at Apple TV+'s new sci-fi series
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> Apple TV+ has finally released the first official teaser trailer for
> the long-in-developmentseries adaptation ofIsaac Asimov's iconic
> sci-fi book seriesFoundation,providing us with our first look at the
> main cast led by Lee Pace and Jared Harris. The high-scale is slated
> to make its debut in 2021. Also featuring a brief introduction from
> creator David Goyer, you can check out the video in the player below!
>
> Teaser Trailer: (2mins 28secs)
> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgbPSA94Rqg>
>
> The series, based on the books that inspired films such asStar Wars,
> will "chronicle 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."
>
> Foundation stars Lee Pace (Guardians of the Galaxy, Halt and Catch
> Fire) as Brother Day, the current Emperor of the Galaxy, and Jared
> Harris (Chernobyl, The Terror) who will play Hari Seldon, a
> mathematical genius who predicts the demise of the Galactic Empire. It
> will also featureLou Llobell as Gaal, Leah Harvey as Salvor, Laura
> Birn as Demerzel, Terrence Mann as Brother Dusk, and Cassian Bilton as
> play Brother Dawn.
>
> A production by Skydance Television, the 10-episode series is created
> by David Goyer and Josh Friedman with Goyer also serving as
> showrunner. Rupert Sanders (Snow White and the Huntsman) will direct.
> Friedman, David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, Marcy Ross, and Cameron Welsh
> are set as executive producers along with Asimov's daughter, Robyn
> Asimov.
>
> The books originally formed a trilogy (which also includesFoundation
> and EmpireandSecond Foundation), but Asimov wound up completing
> sevenFoundationbooks before his passing in 1992.
>
> Originally published as a series of eight short stories in Astounding
> Magazine beginning in 1942,Foundationoffers a complex saga about
> humans who are scattered on planets throughout the galaxy, living
> under the rule of the Galactic Empire. A psycho-historian, who can
> scientifically read the future, sees an imminent empire collapse and
> sets to work preparing to save the knowledge of mankind.
>
> <https://www.comingsoon.net/tv/trailers/1139311-foundation-teaser>

I’ve seen the trailer. It has very little to do with the books, even less 
than most Holyweird productions.