Foundation: an impressive first teaser for the science fiction series from Apple TV +

The next Apple TV + series, drawn from the eponymous cult literary work, was unveiled in the first images which suggest a dizzying spectacle.

Unlike Disney +, which used The Mandalorian as a premium product for its national launch last November, Apple TV + did not land on the SVoD market with a series or a franchise that was sufficiently unifying to immediately work on the flowerbeds of Netflix or Mickey. After the mixed first season of the uchronie For All Mankind, the streaming service will soon reconnect with the genre in the ambitious Foundation series, based on the iconic novels of modern science fiction by visionary writer Isaac Asimov.

Like the masterpiece Dune by Frank Herbert brought to the big screen by Denis Villeneuve, the revolutionary writings of the American-Russian infused science fiction, and were notably a source of inspiration for the saga Star Wars by George Lucas (as David S. Goyer recalls in the making-of part), with which the comparison unfortunately risks being inevitable.

Since the announcement of an adaptation by Apple TV + which recovered the rights, interest has therefore only increased sharply, in particular with the actors Lee Pace and Jared Harris who were the first to be added to the casting. And it is not the official teaser of the recently unveiled series that will cool us.

The story takes place 22,000 years in the future, when the Earth has long been lost and forgotten. A galactic Empire was deployed in the milky way, around the capital Trantor, modern and metallic center of this world. But this glory comes to an end according to the scientist Hari Seldon, foundation of psychohistory, a new form of science: for him, the fall of the Empire is inevitable, and will be followed by a nightmarish millennium, before the birth of a new peaceful Empire. It is to face these 1000 years of barbarism that he wants to create a Foundation, the aim of which is to collect and protect the knowledge of humanity.

The series is supervised by David S. Goyer, the screenwriter of Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, also director of Blade: Trinity, @with a distribution completed by Lou Llobell, Leah Harvey, Laura Birn and Terrence Mann. If no specific date has yet been announced, the series is currently stalled during 2021. Disney + has also impressed its audience with the special effects of The Mandalorian which we are talking about right here.