![]() The slight twist? 250 years has passed after serving an extended prison sentence, but Kovacs isn’t a free man – the sole purpose of his release is to solve the murder a supposedly immortal man, Laurens Bancroft (James Purefoy, Hap and Leonard, Churchill). Starring Joel Kinnaman ( RoboCop, Suicide Squad) as protagonist Takeshi Kovacs, the story follows his investigative journey as he awakens (or “spun up”) in a new body, known as a sleeve, complete with all of his original memories, otherwise known as cortical stack, intact. The recent move by HBO to turn books into epic TV shows, including Game of Thrones and Westworld, has shown that audiences are ready for a gripping TV event that doesn’t dumb down, or simplifies details for the sake of the masses. Instead of trying to pack Richard K Morgan’s hardboiled cyberpunk sci-fi novel into a film, the content streaming service has opted to turn it into a season-long sci-fi series. That’s where Netflix’s latest, Altered Carbon, comes in. ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, The Martian was spawned off Andy Weir’s novel.īut if there’s one criticism, it is that much of the original book has been lost, after having to condensed so many pages within a 120 minute or less structure. Blade Runner is based on Philip K Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, while I, Robot takes after Isaac Asimov’s short story collection of the same name. When it comes to sci-fi epics, there’s no denying that a few of them have been inspired by the penmanship of celebrated authors.
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