Foundation Renewed for Season 3 at Apple TV+
Foundation will be back for another chapter. Apple TV+ has renewed the Lee Pace-led sci-fi series for Season 3, TVLine has learned.
“I’m thrilled Apple has given us the opportunity to continue chronicling [Isaac] Asimov’s pioneering galactic saga,” showrunner and executive producer David S. Goyer said in a statement Tuesday. “This time, the stakes for Foundation and Empire are even higher as the Mule takes center stage, along with fan-favorites Bayta, Toran, Ebling and Magnifico Giganticus.”
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Added Apple TV+’s head of programming Matt Cherniss: “We have all been incredibly impressed with the ambitious, action-packed and imaginative adaptation that David and the rest of this gifted creative team and cast have brought to life with this premium sci-fi series from day one. To watch Foundation become such a global hit has been beyond exciting with audiences around the world continuing to be captivated week after week by this dramatic and compelling journey to save humanity. We can’t wait for everyone to experience what is in store for characters old and new in Season 3.”
Adapted from Asimov’s influential book series, Foundation chronicles the journeys of four crucial individuals “transcending space and time as they overcome deadly crises, shifting loyalties and complicated relationships that will ultimately determine the fate of humanity,” per the official synopsis.
Season 2 wrapped on a shocking note with the death of — Spoiler alert! — Salvor, who, according to the novels, was poised to die later in the series.
“Salvor’s demise was something that we planned for Season 3,” Goyer previously told TVLine. “In the middle of writing the season, I proposed bringing it up to the end of the season because Salvor was going to die at the hands of the Mule at the end of [Season 3].” Her death showed that “no character has plot armor.”
The Mule briefly appeared in the finale, teeing up his game-changing arrival in Season 3. “He’s magnitudes of order more powerful than Tellem,” the EP teased. “When Asimov created [the Mule], it was a character that flipped the whole table over. When the Mule enters the story properly in Season 3, that’s completely what he does…. As crazy as the end of Season 2 is, Season 3 is even crazier. You haven’t seen anything yet.”
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