Foundation showrunner David S. Goyer has revealed that Apple agreed to make the epic sci-fi TV show after a one sentence pitch.
David S. Goyer has revealed that Apple agreed to make his live-action Foundation TV show after a one sentence pitch. Speaking to THR about his upcoming sci-fi epic, the Man of Steel and Terminator: Dark Fate writer explained that his simple explanation of author Isaac Asimov’s convoluted source material was enough to get the series made for Apple TV Plus. So what convinced Apple executives that Foundation was worthy of being sanctioned? The fact that Goyer likened it to HBO’s pop culture phenomenon Game of Thrones. “Apple asked me if I could pitch it in one sentence,” Goyer revealed. “They sort of asked it laughingly. I said: ‘It’s a 1,000-year chess game between Hari Seldon and the Empire, and all the characters in between are the pawns, but some of the pawns over the course of this saga end up becoming kings and queens.” Foundation follows Seldon (Jared Harris), a brilliant mathematician who discovers that, unless the Galactic Empire changes its ways, it universe-spanning colony will fall and its people will endure 30,000 years of hardship before a second Empire emerges from the ashes.
