Apple TV+ Offers First Look at 'Foundation' Season 2 and Reveals New Cast Members

Foundation is one of Apple TV+'s most exciting shows thanks to its epic storytelling and vast universe, and it was renewed for a Season 2 as the first was still airing.

On Tuesday, Apple TV+ shared a new image from the forthcoming season of the sci-fi show, and also announced a whole host of actors joining the cast for the next installment.

Showrunner David S. Goyer previously spoke to Newsweek about how the second season would introduce things like the Second Foundation to the show's universe.

It will also focus on the team-up between Gaal Dornick (Lou Llobell) and Salvor Hardin (Leah Harvey) 138 years in the future, and see the Genetic Dynasty in chaos.

It is the latter that is the main feature of the first-look image shared by Apple TV+, as it shows Lee Pace's Brother Day in a tense conversation with Hari Seldon (Jared Harris) as android Demerzel (Laura Birn) watches on.

It is not obvious what the pair are discussing but the last time they met. Hari made a dire prediction for the Genetic Dynasty—comprised of Cleon clones Brother Dawn, Brother Day and Brother Dusk—if they didn't resign from power.

Pace, Terrence Mann and Cassian Bilton portray Brothers Day, Dusk, and Dawn respectively, and Goyer previously shared with Newsweek that the writers are keen to explore how much the Cleon clones have changed after learning they're no longer perfect copies of their maker.

He explained: "Part of the fun of the show moving forward, we'll be seeing how different the various Cleons are.

"It's part of the the jazz that we're playing with Terrance Mann, Cassian Bilton and Lee Pace, because moving forward, even though they're the same actors, some of the characters are going to be very, very different.

"And so one of the things that's exciting about this, this monkey wrench that's thrown into the Genetic Empire, is what does that do when you introduce chaos into that system? What does that do? Because chaos is fun."

Who Are the New Cast Members in Apple TV+'s 'Foundation'?

The Crown star Ben Daniels joins the cast as Bel Roise, a general of the Superliminal Fleet who is looking to conquer the Foundation set up by Seldon on Terminus.

Isabella Laughland, meanwhile, will play a claric named Brother Constant, who is a true believer in the Church of the Galactic Spirit and travels across the Outer Reach to spread the word and evangelize the church.

Laughland is joined be Kulvinder Ghir in the church as the actor takes on the role of High Claric Poly Verisof.

Ella-Rae Smith will portray Queen Sareth of Cloud Dominion, a royal who uses people's underestimation of her to her advantage and charms her way into the Imperial Palace but who is secretly out for revenge.

Holt McCallany takes on the role of Warden Jaegger Fount, the person to replace Salvor in the position after she left to search for Gaal at the end of Season 1.

Here is the full list of new cast members joining 'Foundation' Season 2:

• Isabella Laughland as Brother Constant
• Kulvinder Ghir as Poly Verisof
• Ella-Rae Smith as Queen Sareth
• Sandra Yi Sencindiver as Enjoiner Rue, the beautiful, politically savvy consigliere to Queen Sareth. A former courtesan to Cleon the 16th, Rue parlayed her status to become a royal counsellor.
• Dimitri Leonidas as Hober Mallow, a master trader with a sarcastic personality and questionable morals, who is summoned against his will to serve a higher, selfless cause.
• Ben Daniels as Bel Roise
• Holt McCallany as Warden Jaegger Fount
• Mikael Persbrandt as The Warlord of Kalgan, a monster of a man, coiled with muscle and possessing powerful psychic abilities and fueled by hate in his quest to take over the galaxy.
• Rachel House as Tellem Bond, mysterious leader of the Mentallics.
• Nimrat Kaur as Yanna Seldon

Foundation Season 1 is available to stream on Apple TV+ now. A release date for Season 2 has yet to be announced.