Mindscape 172, David Goyer on Televising the Fall of the Galactic Empire

Patreon: Blog post with audio player, show notes, and transcript: Science and storytelling have a long and tumultuous relationship. Scientists sometimes want stories to be just an advertisement for how awesome science is; storytellers sometimes want to use science for a few cheap thrills before abandoning it in the morning. But science is about ideas, and ideas can make for thrilling stories when done well. David Goyer is an accomplished screenwriter and director who has taken up a daunting task: adapting Isaac Asimovs famous Foundation series for TV. (Available on Apple TV now. ) We talk about the challenge of making a television version of a beloved series whose central character is a mathematician, and how science and storytelling relate to each other more generally. David Goyer graduated from the University of Southern Californias School of Cinemati