How Foundation Finally Got The Rights To Asimov’s Robot Stories, Explained By The Showrunner [Exclusive]

Right now, one of the most challenging adaptations currently in the works is Mike Flanagan‘s highly anticipated “Dark Tower” TV series, a story that combines so many Stephen King properties with rights distributed among different studios that it seems like a logistical nightmare. Though not at that scale, the “Foundation” TV series on Apple TV+ faced a similar problem from the very start due to the nature of the book universe the show is based on. See, “Foundation” is directly adapting a seminal book series of the same name by legendary sci-fi author Isaac Asimov, but that book series is also part of a larger continuity that also includes…