- Original name: Foundation
- Country: USA
- Genre: fiction
- Producer: R. Sanders
- World premiere: 2021
- Starring: K. Bilton, L. Byrne, J. Harris, L. Ferguson, L. Llobell, T. Mann, L. Pace, M. Hamada, I. Joshua Chambers, J. O'Brien, et al.
- Duration: 10 episodes
The trailer for one of the most anticipated TV series of 2021, the sci-fi saga "Foundation", based on the series of books by Isaac Asimov, has already been released. The release date for Season 1 episodes is expected in 2021, with a total of 10 episodes. The show has an excellent cast. Lee Pace will appear in the image of the emperor of the Galaxy, and a star will play the predictor scientist "Chernobyl" (2019) Jared Harris.
Expectations rating - 99%.
Plot
This is a saga about the fate of people scattered across planets in different parts of the Galaxy, who live under the rule and total control of the Galactic Empire. The brilliant mathematician and visionary Heri Seldon predicts the collapse of the existing system, after which a dark age of thirty thousand years will come. Then he decides to gather a team of revolutionaries to challenge the Galactic Empire.
Production
Directed by Rupert Sanders (Snow White and the Huntsman, Ghost in the Shell).
Voiceover team:
- Screenplay: Isaac Asimov (Bicentennial Man, Gandahar. Light Years), Lauren Bello, Lee Dana Jackson (Unusual Family), etc .;
- Producers: Robyn Asimov, Adam Banks (Modified Carbon), L. Dana Jackson, etc .;
- Cinematography: Dani Roelmann (Messiah, The Raven), Darran Tyrnan (Westworld, Stalker, American Gods);
- Artists: Rory Cheyne ("Hot Spot", "Hannibal"), William Cheng ("The Defective Detective"), David J. Fremlin ("Sex Guru") and others;
- Editing: Skip McDonald (El Camino: Breaking Bad, Fargo), Paul Trejo (Twin Peaks), Claudia Castello (Creed: Rocky's Legacy).
Studios
- Skydance Television.
- Wild Atlantic Pictures.
Filming location: Troy Studios, Castletroy, County Limerick, Ireland / Reykjavik, Iceland / Berlin, Germany.
Actors
Starring:
Interesting Facts
Interesting that:
- The series "Founding" (2021) is released on the Apple + online platform.
- The three main male characters in the original novels are depicted as women: Salvor Hardin, Gaal Dornik, and Eto Demerzel (although Demerzel does not appear at all in the original trilogy).
- The trilogy of the writer Isaac Asimov was published in 1942 and was originally a series of short stories. Then the cycle of works grew to the scale of several dozen separate novels, describing 20 thousand years of the history of the human race.
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