Right now, one of the most challenging adaptations currently in the works is Mike Flanagan's highly anticipated "Dark Tower" TV series , a story that combines so many Stephen King properties with rights distributed among different studios that it seems like a logistical nightmare. Though not at that scale, the "Foundation" TV series on Apple TV+ faced a similar problem from the very start due to the nature of the book universe the show is based on. See, "Foundation" is directly adapting a seminal book series of the same name by legendary sci-fi author Isaac Asimov, but that book series is also part of a larger continuity that also includes Asimov's equally legendary and influential "Robot" universe, from which the Will Smith movie "I, Robot" is adapted .
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