Deadline:

Apple has nabbed a TV series adaptation of Foundation, the seminal Isaac Asimov science fiction novel trilogy. The project, from Skydance Television, has been put in development for straight-to-series consideration. Deadline revealed last June that Skydance had made a deal with the Asimov estate and that David S. Goyer and Josh Friedman were cracking the code on a sprawling series based on the books that informed Star Wars and many other sci-fi films and TV series.

Originally published as a short story series in Astounding Magazine in 1942, Asimov’s Foundation is the complex saga of humans scattered on planets throughout the galaxy, all living under the rule of the Galactic Empire. The protagonist is a psycho-historian who has an ability to read the future and foresees the empire’s imminent collapse. He sets out to save the knowledge of mankind from being wiped out.

I don’t know how familiar any of you are with the Foundation trilogy but when I saw this news I had a little squeal of delight. It’s one of those series I go back and read every few years. Every time I heard that someone was trying to turn it into a movie, I died a little inside. Like Dune, Foundation is too large a world to be constrained to a single movie. A multi-year series is the only way to do it justice.