She hasn't really been introduced that much to psycho-history, so she can be the audience's eyes and ears, and she can be their guide into this world and all these crazy concepts. And I thought, "I'm going to extrapolate from that and make Gaal Dornick the point of view character for the first season." And what's nice about that is Gaal's never been off her home planet. That was the starting point.Īnother starting point, Gaal Dornick is the point of view character in the first story. And they're all desperate to put their own individual mark on the world and mark on the galaxy, and they're all doomed to fail. Because even though they're resistant to change, they're all living in the shadow of Cleon the First. I don't know how many episodes you've seen, but then that led to, I think, some really interesting emotional stories to tell about the emperors themselves.
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How can I come up with a character or series of characters that can embody that?Īnd I thought, "Well, the purest embodiment of being resistant to change is a single individual, just cloning themselves over and over and over again, this just immense act of hubris and ego." And I thought, "Oh, that's a cool way to do that." And the same time, it allows the audience to have the same face that they can attach to the empire from episode to episode, or perhaps from season to season. So I said to Asimov estate, "How do you feel if I gender-flipped a few of the characters?" And they said, "Great, we think you should." So it was trying to find ways in emotionally, and that's what led me to the invention of the genetic dynasty. There's one that has a few speaking lines. There are almost no female characters in the first book. That's not the world that we live in today." So I felt that for the metaphors, we needed to be interrogating what was happening today, and I felt that the audience needed to reflect the world of today. I said, "I know Asimov was initially writing the trilogy in a post-World War Two environment. Fortunately, they said, "We agree with you. And so I thought, "Is there a way to create characters that can emotionally embody the themes that Asimov is talking about? If we can do that, then maybe there's a way to tell the story." And so, I told the Asimov estate and Robin Asimov, that I didn't think it was possible to do just a straight line for line adaptation. I've got to deal with the fact that a lot of important things happen off-screen." But for me, the big thing was the books aren't particularly emotional. And so I thought, "Okay, I've got to deal with these big time jumps. I only had 24 hours to decide whether or not I was going to throw my hat in the ring. We have to care about these characters.'" "And she would constantly say, 'It's got to be emotional. "I can also credit my own wife for that, who's not a science fiction fan," he told me during a recent interview when I asked about the inclusion of romance into Asimov's largely sex-free world. Some Asimov scholars may protest, but Goyer knows he's not making an extremely expensive Apple TV+ show for Asimov readers. And yes, people flirt and kiss and have sex. Sequences of heady science fiction are now accompanied by slick, brutal action scenes. People of color fill out large swaths of the ensemble. The almost entirely male cast of the books has been largely gender-swapped, with women and non-binary performers playing key roles. Looking to shows like Game of Thrones for inspiration, Goyer and his writers reworked Asimov's universe not only for television but for a modern audience.
Goyer, who received the blessing from the Asimov estate to radically remix "Foundation" and transform it into a lavish new streaming series for Apple TV+.
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