With only a couple of days before it’s premiere, Netflix has released a new featurette for its new sci-fi series, Altered Carbon. The ten-episode series is based on the 2002 award-winning novel by Richard K. Morgan of the same title. Altered Carbon takes place in a future where the human mind can now be digitized and downloaded into a “cortical stack” and placed into new bodies, called sleeves.
The series follows Envoy soldier Takeshi Kovacs (Joel Kinnaman), who is brought back to life centuries later to investigate the attempted murder of Laurens Bancroft (James Purefoy), the wealthiest man on Earth. As the investigation progresses, Kovacs comes to learn that his past isn’t nearly as buried as he thought.
Additional cast includes Antonio Marziale(Supernatural), Chris Conner(American Crime Story), Hiro Kanagawa(The Man in the High Castle), Alika Autran(The 100), Teach Grant(Damnation), Hayley Law (Riverdale) and Zahf Paroo(The Magician).
Altered Carbon is adapted by screen writer, producer Laeta Kalogridis( Shutter Island, Terminator Genisys) and Miguel Sapochnik(Game of Thrones, House). Sapochnik who is well-known for directing the episode “Battle of the Bastards from Game of Thrones will also direct the first episode of Altered Carbon. The series is produced by Skydance for Netflix.
Here is the official synopsis for Altered Carbon:
In the future, human minds are digitized and downloaded from body to body. Last night, the wealthiest man on Earth, Laurens Bancroft (James Purefoy) was murdered. To investigate his death, he brings back ex-Envoy soldier Takeshi Kovacs (Joel Kinnaman / Will Yun Lee) and in exchange, Bancroft offers Kovacs the chance to live again.
Based on the classic cyberpunk noir novel by Richard K. Morgan, Altered Carbon is an intriguing story of murder, love, sex, and betrayal, set more than 300 years in the future. Society has been transformed by new technology: consciousness can be digitized; human bodies are interchangeable; death is no longer permanent. Takeshi Kovacs is the lone surviving soldier in a group of elite interstellar warriors who were defeated in an uprising against the new world order. His mind was imprisoned, “on ice”, for centuries until Laurens Bancroft, an impossibly wealthy, long-lived man, offers Kovacs the chance to live again. In exchange, Kovacs has to solve a murder … that of Bancroft himself. The series is produced by Skydance Television for Netflix
Altered Carbon debuts exclusively on Netflix Friday, February 2nd. Check out the new featurette below.
