Foundation TV series 3rd season faces a fiscal fiasco: Galactic Empire temporarily bankrupted? (news)

In the latest cosmic kerfuffle to hit the airwaves—or should we say, fail to hit—the eagerly awaited Season 3 of Foundation on Apple TV+ finds itself tangled in the intricate webs of budgeting snafus and the all-too-earthly challenges of physical production. Picture this: the cast and crew, all geared up and ready to jet off to the picturesque locales of Prague and Poland, are suddenly told to pack up their space boots and head back home. Yes, you heard it right. Just as they were about to embark on the continuation of Isaac Asimov’s sprawling saga, someone hit the pause button, not for the first time, but indeed for a second, causing a ripple of sighs across the galaxy.

For those who’ve been living under a space rock, Foundation stars Jared Harris and Lee Pace in a tale that weaves through time and space, chronicling the adventures of The Foundation—a group of exiles determined to save the Galactic Empire from its own destructive impulses. The series, a monumental adaptation of Asimov’s trilogy, has already taken viewers on a whirlwind through more than a century of galactic tension, psychohistory, and the rise of the Church of Seldon. It’s been nothing short of a celestial opera, with a cast ensemble that reads like a who’s who of the universe.

However, according to the cosmic messengers at Deadline Magazine, our journey through the stars is on a bit of a hiatus. The powers that be have decided that the budget needs a trim before the cameras can roll again in the sprawling cities and vast landscapes that serve as the backdrop to this epic. And so, the interstellar drama that had already captured about a third of its third season in the can now floats in the limbo of unmade content, with no new launch date on the horizon.

This isn’t the first time the production has faced a gravitational pull towards the drawing board. A previous pause was necessitated by a strike, leading to a temporary halt after several weeks of filming in the spring of 2023. It seems even in the far reaches of space, earthly concerns like budgeting and logistics can put a damper on the grandest of narratives.

But fear not, dear readers of SFcrowsnest, for all is not lost in the cosmos. The saga of Foundation is one of resilience, of overcoming crises across time and space. So too, we hope, will be the story of its production. As we await further transmissions on its fate, let us take comfort in the fact that in the world of science fiction, delays are but a prelude to potentially greater adventures. After all, what’s a bit of temporal displacement to those who routinely leap across centuries?

Credit to the celestial scribes at Deadline Magazine for their news update here.