Here’s everything we know about Foundation, Apple TV’s upcoming sci-fi saga show, including its recently announced launch date.
Foundation has generated plenty of buzz since an Apple TV adaptation was first announced in August 2018. The upcoming sci-fi epic is based on a series of novels by Isaac Asimov, whose works are said to have influenced other major sci-fi films and TV shows including Star Wars and Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Initially, we didn’t know a lot about the series. Now, though, we’ve finally received word on when its release date will be. We’ve also been treated to a new official trailer, which provides a better look at the TV series’ Game of Thrones-style politicking, action sequences and sci-fi plot. That’s not all either. Below, we’ve gathered every morsel of information about Foundation on Apple TV Plus so far, including its bumper cast, why it’s taken so long for Asimov’s novels to be adapted into any live-action property and more. If you need a crash course on Foundation’s source material, we’ve got you covered on that front as well. This will prepare you so you don’t go into the TV show with no idea of what’s going on. Foundation will arrive on Apple TV Plus on Friday, September 24. The announcement came alongside the series’ latest teaser trailer, which you can view in the next section. The official Apple TV webpage for the series had confirmed that it is coming sometime this year and, in an interview with LovinMalta, Goyer whittled that timeframe down to late 2021. That tentative release date meant that we’d predicted Foundation would arrive around September or October time, and we’re glad to have been proven right. Like many other productions, filming on Foundation was halted last March due to the Covid-19 pandemic. According to The Irish Independent, production started again in early October, with Troy Studios in the city of Limerick becoming the main base of operations for the sci-fi show. Goyer also confirmed that the cast and crew would shoot more scenes in Malta due to the UK’s third nationwide lockdown, which began in late December 2020. In the same LovinMalta interview, Goyer revealed that Malta had been earmarked as a key shooting location before filming began, but extra sequences would be shot across the republic as a stand-in for various environments and planets in Foundation’s universe. In February 2021, Film New Europe revealed that shooting had wrapped in Malta, but it’s unclear if other scenes or reshoots still need to be gathered before post-production can accelerate. Filming has also taken place in Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands and Tenerife respectively, according to Spanish news outlets Canarias7 and El Dia. As of April, production on Foundation had wrapped, according to various actors who play prominent roles in season 1. Leah Harvey and Lou Llobell, who will portray Salvor Hardin and Gaal Dornick respectively, confirmed that they have finished filming their scenes for the TV show around that time. You can check out Llobell’s April 2 Instagram post below, which reveals that she has finished shooting on the production after 19 months: As for who is directing the series, there are four that we know so far. Alex Graves, whose credits include The Boys and Game of Thrones, is helming three episodes. Agents of S.H.I.E.L. D’s director Roxann Dawson and The Expanse helmer Jennifer Phang have two episodes apiece, while Rupert Sanders – in his first major directorial role – is directing Foundation season 1’s first episode. All of these confirmations come by way of IMDB. However, given that Foundation season 1 will comprise 10 episodes, we don’t know who the other two directors are yet, or whether one of the above quartet is helming those entries.
