David S. Goyer’s upcoming Apple TV+ adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s seminal science fiction novel Foundation has just found its stars. TV Line reports that Jared Harris (The Terror, Chernobyl) and Lee Pace (Pushing Daisies, Guardians of the Galaxy) have joined the upcoming 10-episode streaming series.
Harris will play Hari Seldon, a brilliant mathematician working at the forefront of a new field dubbed “psychohistory,” who predicts the demise of the millennia-old Galactic Empire. Pace will star opposite him as Brother Day, the Emperor of said Galactic Empire. Originally published as a series of short stories in the 1940s, Foundation was published as a novel in 1951 and remains a masterpiece of science fiction. Asimov wrote two sequels in short order, Foundation and Empire in 1952 and Second Foundation in 1953, establishing The Foundation Trilogy. Asimov returned to the world of Foundation in the 1980s and added more prequels and sequels to the continuity,…
