Netflix has finally revealed when its adaptation of Richard K. Morgan’s cyberpunk novel Altered Carbon will return: February 27th, 2020.
Your re-sleeving is now complete. 2.27.20. #AlteredCarbon pic.twitter.com/h4VtaCp6Wh
— Altered Carbon (@AltCarb) January 21, 2020
The series is set centuries in the future where technology allows people to download and transfer their memories to new bodies. While the poor or incarcerated can essentially rent out their bodies for new minds, the wealthy can afford to have clones standing by in the event of their death, allowing them to live for centuries. The series kicks off when a wealthy businessman named Laurens Bancroft (James Purefoy) hires a former soldier named Takeshi Kovacs (Joel Kinnaman / Will Yun Lee) to investigate his own suicide, leading him into a deeper conspiracy.
The first, 10-episode season of the series adapted the first novel in Morgan’s trilogy, Altered Carbon. Netflix renewed the series in 2018 for a second, eight-episode season, (it’s also producing an anime series set in the same universe) which also came with a major casting change: Anthony Mackie replaced Kinnaman as a new body for Kovacks. Lee will also return to portray the original version of the character. That seemingly confirms that the series will tackle the next installment of the trilogy, Broken Angels, where Kovacs is sent off to a distant planet to help recover an alien artifact. We’ll find out how that turns out at the end of Feberuary.
Great news. I liked the first season.
Yay!
I have liked James Purefoy since I saw him play Marc Anthony in Rome. The first series was a good reflection of the book. Not perfect but good. Perhaps it is Morgan’s writing style that makes it transferable.
From what I’ve read about the books, the show is far superior, because it doesn’t have the transphobia that is riddled in a lot of transhumanist fiction, which is SO WEIRD to me.
Loved Purefoy since Rome too.
Can’t wait to see Mackie.
The books are far superior to the TV show. Also, there wasn’t any transphobia in them, not sure where you are getting that from, or the bit about transhumanist fiction being transphobic
I liked the show better, but as relevant to the adaptations thread I saw the show first. I thought they made good decisions to compress the number of characters and simplify the story line.
I loved the first two books. I expected to hate any changes but thought the changes they did make worked surprisingly well, even if I didn’t get why they made them.
Loved the first season, but it was so long ago that I barely remember the details. I guess it’s time for a rewatch.
How about not publicising something which will funnel money to Noted TERF Richard Morgan?
Here’s his stance on trans people, on his own blog, just so there’s no confusion.
Tor like to portray themselves as progressive and inclusive, so how on Earth do you justify giving free publicity to this bigot?
@Scotoma their comment might have a lot to do with the author being a transphobe. When that came out on Twitter, I remember multiple people mentioned things in the books that implied the author’s feelings before he openly supported TERFs.
And while I don’t read enough transhumanist fiction to comment on its general transphobia a lot of it does ignore that trans people exist, when it should be glaringly obvious that some trans people would, y’know, really like something like body swapping.
@5, I get that from trans people telling me the way the books handle cross-sleeving is pretty offensive, and that the show handles it with a lot more sensitivity.