{"id":2020253,"date":"2025-09-13T23:57:26","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T23:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2020253"},"modified":"2025-09-13T23:57:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T23:57:26","slug":"how-foundation-finally-got-the-rights-to-asimovs-robot-stories-explained-by-the-showrunner-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/how-foundation-finally-got-the-rights-to-asimovs-robot-stories-explained-by-the-showrunner-exclusive\/","title":{"rendered":"How Foundation Finally Got The Rights To Asimov&#8217;s Robot Stories, Explained By The Showrunner [Exclusive]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">Right now, one of the most challenging adaptations currently in the works is <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/name\/nm1093039\/\">Mike Flanagan<\/a>&#8216;s highly anticipated &#8220;<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/title\/tt0092831\/\">Dark Tower<\/a>&#8221; TV series, a story that combines so many <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000175\/\">Stephen King<\/a> properties with rights distributed among different studios that it seems like a logistical nightmare. Though not at that scale, the &#8220;Foundation&#8221; 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, &#8220;Foundation&#8221; is directly adapting a seminal book series of the same name by legendary sci-fi author <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001920\/\">Isaac Asimov<\/a>, but that book series is also part of a larger continuity that also includes&#8230;<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source m.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right now, one of the most challenging adaptations currently in the works is Mike Flanagan&#8216;s highly anticipated &#8220;Dark Tower&#8221; 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 &#8220;Foundation&#8221; TV series on Apple TV+ [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2020254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2020253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/How-Foundation-Finally-Got-The-Rights-To-Asimovs-Robot-Stories.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2020253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2020254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2020253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2020253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2020253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}