Foundation Season 3 Shares a First Look for Lee Pace Fans (and Everyone Else)

Foundation play 2 wrapped up successful September 2023—a thrilling, thoroughly entertaining outing that improved upon play 1 successful galore ways. Will that inclination proceed for the 3rd play of Apple TV+‘s Isaac Asimov adaptation? It seems highly apt considering the teaser and first-look images the streamer conscionable shared, on with a premiere date: July 11.

Despite immoderate behind-the-scenes duty-shifting that saw David S. Goyer stepping backmost arsenic showrunner, though he’s inactive precise overmuch progressive with the series—as good arsenic delays related to the 2023 Hollywood strikes and immoderate fund concerns—season 3 inactive looks arsenic large-scale and epic arsenic the erstwhile two.

Here’s the authoritative statement for the season: “Set 152 years aft the events of play two, the Foundation has go progressively established acold beyond its humble beginnings portion the Cleonic Dynasty’s Empire has dwindled. As some of these galactic powers forge an uneasy alliance, a menace to the full postulation appears successful the fearsome signifier of a warlord known arsenic ‘The Mule’ whose sights are acceptable connected ruling the beingness by usage of carnal and subject force, arsenic good arsenic caput control. It’s anyone’s conjecture who volition win, who volition lose, who volition unrecorded and who volition dice arsenic Hari Seldon, Gaal Dornick, the Cleons, and Demerzel play a perchance deadly crippled of intergalactic chess.”

Jared Harris stars arsenic Hari, with Lou Llobell arsenic Gaal and Lee Pace arsenic the middle-aged (and hottest, duh) Cleon. Laura Birn is the crafty android Demerzel; Cassian Bilton and Terrence Mann play the younger and older Cleons, respectively. Rowena King besides returns arsenic the legendary mathematician Kalle.

New characters successful play three—necessary owed to that clip jump, arsenic good arsenic the information that a lot of folks did not past play two—will beryllium played by Cherry Jones, Brandon P. Bell, Synnøve Karlsen, Cody Fern, Tómas Lemarquis, Alexander Siddig, and Troy Kotsur.

Pilou Asbæk, a instrumentality favourite from Game of Thrones, is playing the terrifying Mule—introduced successful play 2 arsenic much of a shadowy aboriginal promise—which feels similar perfect casting.

Here are immoderate first-look play 3 images, including our pal the Mule:

Foundation returns Friday, July 11 to Apple TV+. It’ll tally 10 occurrence with a play rollout done September 12.

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