[Netflix] Altered Carbon

Altered Carbon

Directed by Miguel Sapochnik. With Joel Kinnaman. ALTERED CARBON is set in a future where consciousness is digitized and stored in cortical stacks implanted in the spine, allowing humans to survive physical death by having their memories and consciousness "re-sleeved" into new bodies. The story follows specially trained "Envoy" soldier Takeshi Kovacs, who is downloaded from an off-world prison and into the body of a disgraced cop at the behest of Laurens Bancroft, a highly influential aristocrat. Bancroft was killed, and the last automatic backup of his stack was made hours before his death, leaving him with no memory of who killed him and why. While police ruled it a suicide, Bancroft is convinced he was murdered and wants Kovacs to find out the truth.

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Netflix Orders Sci-Fi Drama Based on 'Altered Carbon'

Writer Laeta Kalogridis and Skydance Television are behind the 10-episode project.

[...]Adapted by Laeta Kalogridis (Avatar, Shutter Island) and Skydance Television, the passion project is set in the 25th century and explores what happens when the human mind becomes digitized and the soul is transferable from one body to another. Takeshi Kovacs, an ex-elite interstellar warrior known as an Envoy who has been imprisoned for 500 years, is downloaded into a future he had tried to stop. If he can solve a single murder in a world where technology has made death nearly obsolete, he will get a chance at a new life on Earth.

Link: www.hollywoodreporter.com

Joel Kinnaman to Star in Netflix Sci-Fi Series ‘Altered Carbon’

Joel Kinnaman will star in Netflix’s sci-fi series “Altered Carbon,” Variety has learned. Miguel Sapochnik (“Game of Thrones”) is set to direct the first episode of the 10-episode series, which was ordered earlier this year by the streaming giant.

Link: variety.com