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Altered Carbon Season 2 Confirmed Starring Anthony Mackie
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/avengers-actor-to-star-in-altered-carbon-season-2/1100-6460788/
Altered Carbon has been renewed for a second season, and a second Kovacs. Netflix's popular sci-fi adaptation set in the distant future where AI is old hat and bodies are as replaceable as cars, will officially be back for a new season. Spoilers to follow for Season 1 of Altered Carbon.
The first season starred Joel Kinnaman as Takeshi Kovacs, a former member of a rebellion army imprisoned for his crimes, who is released to solve the murder of one of the richest men in the world. It was action-packed, surprising, and super trippy.
The replaceable nature of bodies in the story allows the showrunners to recast a character as many times as they want, which often brings up questions of identity and mortality. In the second season, Kovacs will be played by Avengers actor Anthony Mackie, and we're hoping he brings some his Marvel magic to the show.
Many questions remain about how Netflix will approach the upcoming season. It's unclear whether Martha Higareda will be back to play the tough but damaged cop, Kristin Ortega, or what Takeshi will do with his time now that he's a free man. One of the biggest reveals at the end of the season, however, was that Quellcrist Falconer, the leader of the rebellion and the love of Takeshi's life, may actually be alive out there somewhere, so we're hoping that they address this information next season.
An official release date has not been announced for Season 2 of Altered Carbon, but we're really excited to see what Mackie brings to the role and the direction the show will take in the new season.
Altered Carbon has been renewed for a second season, and a second Kovacs. Netflix's popular sci-fi adaptation set in the distant future where AI is old hat and bodies are as replaceable as cars, will officially be back for a new season. Spoilers to follow for Season 1 of Altered Carbon.
The first season starred Joel Kinnaman as Takeshi Kovacs, a former member of a rebellion army imprisoned for his crimes, who is released to solve the murder of one of the richest men in the world. It was action-packed, surprising, and super trippy.
The replaceable nature of bodies in the story allows the showrunners to recast a character as many times as they want, which often brings up questions of identity and mortality. In the second season, Kovacs will be played by Avengers actor Anthony Mackie, and we're hoping he brings some his Marvel magic to the show.
Many questions remain about how Netflix will approach the upcoming season. It's unclear whether Martha Higareda will be back to play the tough but damaged cop, Kristin Ortega, or what Takeshi will do with his time now that he's a free man. One of the biggest reveals at the end of the season, however, was that Quellcrist Falconer, the leader of the rebellion and the love of Takeshi's life, may actually be alive out there somewhere, so we're hoping that they address this information next season.
An official release date has not been announced for Season 2 of Altered Carbon, but we're really excited to see what Mackie brings to the role and the direction the show will take in the new season.
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I love Anthony Mackie. Looking forward to season 2!
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thanks for posting @Mike Wheeler
Netflix has renewed Altered Carbon for a second season
Anthony Mackie will replace Joel Kinnaman for the lead role of Takeshi Kovacs
Netflix’s adaptation of Richard K. Morgan’s cyberpunk novel Altered Carbon is getting a eight-episode, second season. But when it returns, it’ll have a new actor playing the lead role of Takeshi Kovacs — Joel Kinnaman will be replaced by Anthony Mackie, currently best known for playing Falcon in the Captain America and Avengers Marvel Cinematic Universe films.Altered Carbon is set centuries in the future, in a world where humanity has overcome mortality via a technology that allows human consciousness to be transferred from one body (or “sleeve,” in slang parlance) to another, assuming the client can afford it. The show’s first season is a grim neo-noir thriller that follows a former soldier named Takeshi Kovacs as he’s hired to solve the murder of a prominent Earth billionaire, Laurens Bancroft, who apparently committed suicide. The season, a bloody and violent affair, completely wrapped up the events of Morgan’s 2002 novel.
In the novel, Kovacs (played by Will Yun Lee in his original body) inhabits the body of a disgraced police officer (played by Joel Kinnaman), and leaves Earth and that body at the end of the story once his mission is completed. Because of Kovacs’ identity shift, there was some confusion over whether the show would return for a second season, and if it did, whether Kinnaman would return — he didn’t rule it out. Season 1 creator Laeta Kalogridis will return as showrunner, and will be joined by Alison Schapker (Lost, Fringe, Almost Human) as co-showrunner and executive producer.
Netflix hasn’t indicated what path season 2 will take, but the recasting suggests that the show might tackle the next book in the trilogy, Broken Angels, to some extent. That novel is set three decades later, with Kovacs as a member of a mercenary outfit fighting in a corporate war on a planet called Sanction IV. He’s recruited to secure a buried alien artifact, a plot point teased in the first season.
If that’s the case, viewers should expect some big changes for the show. Where Altered Carbon was a neo-noir cyberpunk story that focused on the consequences of wealth inequality, Broken Angels is a very different book that moves toward military science fiction and space opera. The third novel, Woken Furies, delves into Kovac’s past.
https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/27/17622118/netflix-altered-carbon-renewed-season-2-anthony-mackie-broken-angels-joel-kinnaman-science-fiction
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Really looking forward to this season. This show was terrific, and I have high hopes for more from them.
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