You'll only need to remember the name Incention for the brief moment you're reading this post, because you'll likely never have to think about it again. As Variety reports, it's a new platform for building new Hollywood IP using the combined power of AI tools, fan contributions and the blockchain. Incention describes itself as "a new blueprint for building modern franchises, where IP holders, communities, and agents collaborate seamlessly in an endless playground rooted in real IP." Because, of course, the real problem plaguing Hollywood today is the inability to build franchises with user-generated content, unproven AI tools and blockchain hype. Incention's first franchise -- the modern Hollywood term for "story" -- is Emergence, a sci-fi premise from Blade and The Dark Knight writer David S. Goyer.

Are you watching the new season of the Apple TV series Foundation and thinking, "Wow, space looks cool. I wish it really was like that"? You're in luck--it very well could be. Foundation showrunner David S. Goyer says his adaptation of Isaac Asimov's science fiction series honed its cosmic details with Kevin Hand, a scientist who works at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and who's currently hard at work figuring out the logistics of landing a rover on Europa, one of Jupiter's 95 known moons. The show also found inspiration for its spacey visuals in recent images sent down from the James Webb Space Telescope, which Goyer calls "a treasure trove of material."

An innocent viewer of the new Apple TV series "Foundation"--a lavish production complete with clone emperors, a haunted starship, and a killer android who tears off her own face--might be surprised to learn that the novels it's based on inspired Paul Krugman to become an economist. Isaac Asimov's classic saga revolves around the dismal science of "psychohistory," a hybrid of math and psychology that can predict the future. Its inventor, Hari Seldon, lives in a twelve-thousand-year-old galactic empire, which, his equations reveal, is about to collapse. "Interstellar wars will be endless," he warns. His followers establish a Foundation on the frontier world of Terminus--a colony tasked with conserving all human knowledge--where they spend the next millennium fulfilling "Seldon's plan" to reunite the galaxy.

Ahead of the show's Apple TV premiere on September 24th, Apple has offered another look at its latest sci-fi saga, Foundation. The latest trailer doesn't reveal too much about the story, but it has some impressive visuals. The clip features a elevator that, according to showrunner David S. Goyer, stretches around 26 miles into space. There's also a floating visualization of a supercomputer that takes design cues from a Möbius strip. Goyer told IGN that he challenged his production team to find a look that didn't remind viewers of Star Wars or Star Trek, perhaps the two biggest linchpins of science fiction.

David Goyer is a master of multimedia. He's written screenplays for blockbuster films including Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy, TV series such as "Da Vinci's Demons" and "Constantine," video games including "Call of Duty: Black Ops" and "Vader Immortal: A Star Wars VR series." Goyer took time recently to discuss "Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War," the latest entry in the multibillion-selling first-person franchise from the set of "Foundation," the Apple TV series based on the books by the late Isaac Asimov on which he is a writer and executive producer. Despite the effects of the coronavirus pandemic, the game's developers at Treyarch and Raven Software opted not to add any hint of the crisis into the game, says Goyer, who was a writer and story consultant on "Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War," out now, for PlayStation 4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X and S, and PCs on Battle.net'Madden NFL 21':Update for PS5, Xbox Series X and S brings more realistic moves to the game midseason The Game Awards:'The Last of Us Part II' leads video game nominees for next month's event "People have asked me on'Foundation,' are you going to weave the idea of COVID into the show even though that show takes place in the future," Goyer said.

Maika Monroe and Ed Skrein have boarded Federico D' Alessandro's sci-fi thriller Tau, with Waypoint Entertainment financing under their first look deal with Addictive Pictures. David S. Goyer (Man of Steel) and Kevin Turen (The Birth of a Nation) will produce under their Phantom Four banner alongside Russell Ackerman and John Schoenfelder for Addictive Pictures. Bloom is handling international sales at Cannes with WME repping domestic rights. The story follows a street-smart grifter, Julia (Monroe), who is the latest victim kidnapped and held captive in a fatal experiment. The only thing standing in the way of her freedom is Tau, an advanced artificial intelligence developed by Alex (Skrein), her captor.