It has been at least 50 years since I read the Foundation trilogy. About that time I was learning to program computers and it seemed to me that Asimov certainly lacked imagination with his rooms full of mathematicians calculating probabilities by hand. Can't remember much of the plot but do remember 'the Mule'.
I do hope the project comes to fruition just because I would like to see how the writers handle it.
"The Stone Age did not end for lack of stone, and the Oil Age will end long before the world runs out of oil"
-- Sheikh Zaki Yamani