Apple TV+’s long-awaited adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s basic sci-fi saga Foundation is sort of upon us, and the streamer needs you to be each excited and ready. We’ve gotten just a few trailers thus far, and now there’s a “First Look” that goes behind the scenes of the sequence. Prominently featured is showrunner, author, and executive producer David S. Goyer (The Dark Knight, Batman Begins, Dark City); for much more from him, you may take a look at io9’s one-on-one interview from earlier right now. But if you wish to get a have a look at how Foundation’s huge world goes to look on display screen, have a look beneath.

Goyer calls Foundation “the greatest science fiction work of all time… it was such a phenomenal influence on the Star Wars universe. Even things like Dune were influenced by Foundation”—providing an entry level to potential followers who won’t have learn Asimov’s guide sequence, or at the very least not learn it but. You additionally get a superb have a look at the 2 sides of the story, represented by stars Lee Pace (who performs one-third of the genetically engineered Empire) and Jared Harris (mathematician Hari Seldon, whose theories about the way forward for the galaxy make him an outsider). Plus: landscapes, costumes, spaceships, deserts, and undoubtedly quite a lot of hints of the drama to come back. “It took awhile for the world to be ready for Foundation, and that age has finally arrived,” Goyer teases.

io9 could have extra on Foundation—which additionally stars Lou Llobell (as Gaal Dornick), Alfred Enoch (Raych Seldon), Terrence Mann (Brother Dusk), Leah Harvey (Salvor Hardin), and Laura Birn (Demerzel)—main as much as its launch, together with a evaluation. Foundation’s first two episodes (out of 10 complete) arrive on September 24 on Apple TV+, with weekly drops thereafter on Fridays.

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