Apple gave a straight-to-series order for the long-gestating project that Skydance Television brought to Apple in April this year.
Apple gave Skydance a development deal earlier this year for a possible straight-to-series Foundation pick-up and will now proceed to make an entire first season.
David S. Goyer and Josh Friedman will be the executive producers and showrunners of Foundation, with David Ellison, Dana Goldberg and Marcy Ross who will also be executive producers.
Skydance Television that is also responsible for the first season of Altered Carbon that became available on Netflix and Netflix South Africa in March, will produce a 10-episode first season of the as-yet-untitled Foundation series.
The official logline from Apple about Foundation is that "the series will revolve around the thousand year saga of the Foundation, a band of exiles who discover that the only way to save the Galactic Empire from destruction is to defy it".
The fascinating Foundation story is set far into mankind's future when humanity has spread out across the galaxy inhabiting millions of worlds (without ever finding extra-terrestrial life) spans across several millennia and dozens of characters.
Mathematician Hari Seldon invents psychohistory which can broadly "predict" human behaviour and behavioural patters on a massive scale, and he constructs a plan to shorten the predicted new "dark age" of the Galactic Empire by setting up the "Foundation".
The mesmerising story, filled with major twists and dramatic, unexpected turns, concludes with a few books detailing a highly adventurous journey of an intrepid group trying to find the origins of humanity, apparently a place called Earth.
