Diksha Sundriyal
Apple TV+’s sci-fi series ‘Foundation’ has been renewed for a third season. The filming for the same is scheduled to wrap on June 28. The confirmation for the third season has come in a mere ten days after the second season’s finale aired on September 15, 2023, which shows how well the series is doing with the fans.
While the production of most TV shows has suffered due to the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strike, things have moved pretty fast for ‘Foundation.’ Reportedly, the third season was already in pre-production, and the scripts were written before the strike. Co-creator David S. Goyer also confirmed that with the Mule as the focus of the season, the show will use ‘Foundation and Empire,’ which is, chronologically, the fourth book in the source novel series, as the source material.
The second season of ‘Foundation’ ends with an explosive episode where several main characters meet an untimely end. The final scene establishes the time jump of 152 years, which is in line with a similar time jump between the first and second seasons. The creators of the show, David S. Goyer and Josh Friedman, have previously revealed that they aim to make ‘Foundation’ somewhat of an anthology, with every season taking the audience on a time jump with new enemies and allies for the main characters.
The third season is set to focus on The Mule, whose character was teased in the second season. Apart from this, the plot will also focus on the Mentallics and the First and Second Foundation. More details about the direction of the new season have been kept under wraps. In the same vein, we are yet to find out about the new cast members that will join ‘Foundation’ for its third installment.
The finale of Season 2 saw the death of some of the most beloved characters on the show. The most shocking was the death of Salvor Hardin (Leah Harvey), one of the main characters. Another character who was expected to survive the events of the season was Hober Mallow (Dimitri Leonidas). However, he, too, meets an untimely end.
Jared Harris and Lee Pace are confirmed to return as Hari Seldon and Day. Lou Llobell is expected to return as Gaal Dornick, who is last seen going into cryosleep to wake up just in time to fight the Mule. Laura Birn as Demerzel and Cassian Bilton and Terrence Mann as Dawn and Dusk are also some of the actors expected to return to the upcoming installment. Mikael Persbrandt (best known for playing Jakob in Netflix’s ‘Sex Education’) will not return as the Mule since Pilou Asbæk was brought on board to replace the former.
In addition to the existing cast members, we will also see a group of newcomers in the third season. These performers include Cherry Jones, Synnøve Karlsen, Cody Fern, Brandon P. Bell, Tómas Lemarquis, Yootha Wong-Loi-Sing, and Leo Bill.
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