- A brand new comedic sci-fi sequence starring Alexander Skarsgård is coming to Apple TV+
- The trailer reveals off a futuristic office world, crammed with The Office-like gags
- Martha Wells’s The Murderbot Diaries serves because the inspiration for the present
It’s onerous to consider it was manner again in December of 2023 once we first discovered that Alexander Skarsgård (True Blood, The Northman) would star as Murderbot, the snarky rogue SecUnit in Apple TV+’s adaptation of Martha Wells’s Nebula and Hugo Award-winning The Murderbot Diaries sequence of far future sci-fi novels and novellas that started with 2017’s All Systems Red.
After sterile photographs of an impassive Skarsgård in a candy cyborg swimsuit and round masks had been revealed this previous February, Apple TV+ has now handled Murderbot trustworthy followers with the primary full trailer for the live-action present, which launches on May 16 with a particular two-episode premiere – and it appears to be like prefer it has the making to be among the best Apple TV+ reveals.
This ten-episode Murderbot sequence hatched by Paramount Television Studios and quirky creators Chris and Paul Weitz (About a Boy) chronicles the semi-strange lifetime of “a self-hacking safety android who’s horrified by human emotion but drawn to its susceptible shoppers. Murderbot should cover its free will and full a harmful project when all it actually needs is to be left alone to observe futuristic cleaning soap operas and work out its place within the universe.”
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Enjoy Apple TV+’s outrageously humorous sneak peek at Murderbot (see trailer above) and the insipid people that inhabit the sentient machine’s futuristic office world, crammed with The Office-like gags, dry situational humor, corny sci-fi cleaning soap operas, a ginormous alien centipede, and all paired with Stealers Wheel’s bubble gum pop basic ‘Stuck within the Middle With You’, which you’ll recall from Quentin Tarantino’s loopy crime thriller, Reservoir Dogs.
Skarsgård’s genderless, free-thinking android will likely be joined by fellow Murderbot ensemble solid members Noma Dumezweni, David Dastmalchian, Sabrina Wu, Akshay Khanna, Tattiawna Jones, and Tamara Podemski.
“It simply doesn’t get people in any respect,” Skarsgård lately advised Vanity Fair. “It’s not a deep hatred, it’s simply zero quantity of curiosity. It’s confused by people and needs to get away from them.”
This extremely anticipated challenge is written and directed by The Weitz brothers out of their Depth of Field inventive shingle beside govt producer Andrew Miano. David S. Goyer (Blade, The Dark Knight Trilogy, Foundation) govt produces in partnership with Keith Levine for Phantom Four. Author Martha Wells can be on board the sequence as a consulting producer.
Murderbot powers up completely on Apple TV+, among the best streaming companies, with a dual-episode launch on May 16, 2025, adopted by recent chapters every Friday by means of July 11.
