They're rigid and so I tried to think about what's the vision? What's the theme? What is Asimov talking about? How do I embody that in a character? ‘One man cloning himself over and over again and imposing his ego upon an entire galaxy.' They're powerful, they're resistant to change. “In the books, the Empire has existed on 10,000 worlds for over 10,000 years. “It's a perfect example of how we approached the adaptation,” Goyer said in a video conference press meet last week. Why did Foundation series creator David S. There's the youngest Dawn, the middle ruler Day, and the eldest Dusk.
At any one time, three Cleon clones exist, to guide one another and to groom the next era. Emperor Cleon the First - he appears briefly in the books - decides he's going to clone himself over and over, so he can forever rule the galaxy. Among those is the creation of a genetic dynasty that rules the Galactic Empire. Foundation, the Apple TV+ series that begins September 24, makes a lot of changes to Isaac Asimov's books that it adapts.