Big changes for Netflix’s altered Carbon season 2.
A new announcement trailer and cast list has been revealed and it seems that Joel Kinnamon is gone.
Based on Richard K. Morgan’s 2002 novel (the first of three we believe), this looks like everything you could possibly want in a live action sci-fi show: it has stunning visuals, interesting plot and plenty of characters… hopefully it’s able to bring the content to match the style (which owes a lot to Blade Runner, let’s be honest).
Altered Carbon Season 2 stars Anthony Mackie (Infinity War), Simone Missick (Luke Cage), Dina Shihabi (Jack Ryan), Torben Liebrecht (Operation Finale), James Saito (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles), Renee Elise Goldberry (Altered Carbon), and Chris Conner (Altered Carbon).
New Stacks. New Sleeves. Familiar Faces. Altered Carbon Season 2 is now in production.
This was the synopsis for season 1:
When human consciousness can be stored on digital implants (called “stacks”) which allow the mega-rich to continually upgrade their bodies (dubbed “sleeves”) and essentially live forever. The story follows an elite soldier named Takeshi Kovacs. This is him below during a flashback scene (where he’s initially played by Will Yun Lee) along with his sister Reileen Kawahara (Dichen Lachman). They were killers for hire who became revolutionaries.
Kovacs is imprisoned, his conscious stored away, and then awoken centuries later in a different body. He’s now played by Joel Kinnaman (The Killing). Kovacs’ freedom was arranged by a wealthy mogul, Laurens Bancroft (James Purefoy), who offers Kovacs a pardon for his crimes if he can solve a “murder” — Bancroft’s own, as somebody killed his previous sleeve.
Kovacs was trained by Quell (Hamilton star Renee Elise Goldsberry), the leader of the Envoys — elite interstellar warriors, trained in the ways of intuition, combat, and survival The release of Kovacs catches the interest of Kristin Ortega (Martha Higareda), a detective with a complicated past.
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