'Foundation' cast and crew sent home as production delayed
Apple TV+ drama "Foundation" should have resumed filming for season 3, but production has been shut down while issues including lowering its budget are being discussed.
Foundation poster (Source: Apple TV+)
"Foundation" had already seen its third season production interrupted by the Writers' Guild and SAG-AFTRA actors' union went on strike during 2023.
According to Deadline, production was due to resume this month, with around two-thirds of the season still to be shot. However, cast and crew arriving in Prague and Poland for filming have reportedly been sent home.
Deadline says that unspecified production issues are being worked out, and also that the budget is being brought down. Previously, it was reported that Apple TV+ was spending $5 million per episode, with each season having 10 editions.
Pushing back a start date after booking cast, crew, and at least undertaking some location logistics with everything from cameras to hotels, is clearly expensive. It's likely, then, that the show's budget reduction could be significant.
If so, it's then also likely that the series will require rewriting, which could mean a significant production delay.
Separately, Apple TV+ drama "Silo" was similarly shut down during production because of the strikes, but it has resumed filming its second season. Star and executive producer Rebecca Ferguson has revealed that filming is scheduled to finish on March 8, 2024.
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Foundation poster (Source: Apple TV+)
"Foundation" had already seen its third season production interrupted by the Writers' Guild and SAG-AFTRA actors' union went on strike during 2023.
According to Deadline, production was due to resume this month, with around two-thirds of the season still to be shot. However, cast and crew arriving in Prague and Poland for filming have reportedly been sent home.
Deadline says that unspecified production issues are being worked out, and also that the budget is being brought down. Previously, it was reported that Apple TV+ was spending $5 million per episode, with each season having 10 editions.
Pushing back a start date after booking cast, crew, and at least undertaking some location logistics with everything from cameras to hotels, is clearly expensive. It's likely, then, that the show's budget reduction could be significant.
If so, it's then also likely that the series will require rewriting, which could mean a significant production delay.
Separately, Apple TV+ drama "Silo" was similarly shut down during production because of the strikes, but it has resumed filming its second season. Star and executive producer Rebecca Ferguson has revealed that filming is scheduled to finish on March 8, 2024.
Read on AppleInsider
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Day is the best character by far and I love his right hand robot lady.....the rest of the story line and characters are a bit Meh.
Still, a bit sad the 3rd season isn't coming 😏
I watched the entire first season of Foundation the special effects and the look were great (like I knew they would be) could not move on to the second series, the story line is like Star Wars, or the later on non original Star Trek, it tries to hit home runs and fails it isn’t in the same league as a Quiet Place, Bird Box, Hellbound, Gyeongseong Creature, Ragnarok (1st season) where a storyline arc is told in a matter of fact way with great characters thru-out without the blockbuster grandstanding.
Note: the Quiet Place is the only one that might be able keep the magic going the previews of the third version look very promising John Krasinski writer/director proving to be a very good filmmaker with this series of movies.
Slow moving (which had never crossed my mind) is no bad thing. Watch a modern blockbuster, pop video, concert video. Chop-chop-chop - speed up, slow down, change angle, zoom in, edit, cut, zoom in, zoom out, pan and on and on. It’s utterly exhausting. Even an interview with a single person talking to a camera these days can’t hold on their face, as it would if you were in front listening to them, but switches to a left side view, then a right, then centre, then left. It’s as though they can’t just stop playing with their toys.
A story that has takes its time to unfold is just fine by me.
”*one*”
Find a way to make payoffs matter from episode to episode. I get that it's a "long game" type of show, but dang, even when something has been building to a point, that point just isn't satisfying.