Netflix is finally confirming the renewal which we reported in December with Anthony Mackie taking over the lead role of Takeshi Kovacs, previously played by Joel Kinnaman. Alison Schapker (Scandal, The Flash, Fringe, Alias) has joined as co-showrunner alongside Laeta Kalogridis.
NETFLIX RENEWS ALTERED CARBON FOR A SECOND SEASON ANTHONY MACKIE TO STAR AS TAKESHI KOVACS
- Netflix has ordered additional episodes of Altered Carbon from Skydance Television.
- The series is based on the classic science fiction novels by Richard K. Morgan.
- Anthony Mackie (Captain America series, Detroit) will star as Takeshi Kovacs
- Laeta Kalogridis will return as co-showrunner and executive producer.
- Alison Schapker joins the series as co-showrunner and will also serve as an executive producer.
- David Ellison, Dana Goldberg and Marcy Ross will executive produce for Skydance.
- James Middleton (Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles), will serve as an executive producer.
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New season. New sleeve. #AlteredCarbon has been renewed for Season 2. 🦄🦄— Altered Carbon (@AltCarb) July 27, 2018
Original: December 14th
Looks like Netflix has quietly renewed their upcoming Sci-Fi drama Altered Carbon for a 2nd season, 6 weeks before its series premiere.
Per ProdWeek, production on season 2 is set to begin in October of next year in Vancouver.
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.
Altered Carbon premieres February 2nd on Netflix.
