Apple TV+ commissioned 'Foundation' after a one-sentence pitch

Isaac Asimov's epic 'Foundation' novels are famously impossible to reduce to a film or series, but Apple TV+ asked for a one-sentence summary — and got it.Initially a trilogy, Isaac Asimov's 'Foundation,' coming to Apple TV+ in September, was considered unfilmable even before he added a further four novels to the series. That's chiefly because Asimov was more interested in ideas than characters, and discards all of them in order to have his 'future history' story span a thousand years.'Apple asked me if I could pitch it in one sentence,' producer David S. Goyer told The Hollywood Reporter in an interview about his filmmaking career. 'They sort of asked it laughingly.' Read more...