On Wednesday, Apple TV+ released the first official trailer for Murderbot.
Read the official synopsis:
"Based on Martha Wells' best-selling, Hugo and Nebula Award-winning book series, “Murderbot" is sci-fi thriller/comedy about a self-hacking security construct who is horrified by human emotion yet drawn to its vulnerable clients. Murderbot must hide its free will and complete a dangerous assignment when all it really wants is to be left alone to watch futuristic soap operas and figure out its place in the universe."
Alexander Skarsgård (True Blood) plays the titular Murderbot who doesn't murder. The series is being helmed by brothers Chris and Paul Weitz (who previously co-directed About a Boy and worked together on the original American Pie), with David S. Goyer serving as an executive producer. The rest of the cast includes Noma Dumezweni, David Dastmalchian, Sabrina Wu, Akshay Khanna, Tattiawna Jones, and Tamara Podemski.
Murderbot will premiere globally on Apple TV+ on 16th May.
Have you watched the first official trailer for Murderbot? What did you think? Are you looking forward to it? Let me know in the comments below.
This series is a phenomenon in the US but oddly difficult to get at a reasonable price in the UK. I did read the first novella last year, and it was fine, but not exactly ground breaking or revolutionary so it was hard to see what the huge appeal of it is. I assume that it picks up and becomes stronger in subsequent stories but they're so bizarrely overpriced in the UK market that I wasn't able to confirm this.
ReplyDeleteI'm looking forward to seeing the comments and reaction to the TV adaptation, though. Maybe that will give me the missing information I need to know what the big appeal of the stories is.
I'd never heard of it until the live-action adaptation was announced for Apple TV+!
DeleteNeither had I until I came across a discussion of it on The WELL in the Science Fiction conference. I was very frustrated that the books seemed to have never been printed in the UK and that the Kindle versions appear very over priced (niche novellas costing more than regular blockbuster bestsellers). It's a shame - they deserve better circulation, although at the same time I'm not really quite sure why there is such acclaim for them in the US.
DeleteMaybe they will become better known here and/or the pricing gets reconsidered with the launch of the AppleTV adaptation.