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Altered Carbon is a 2002 British cyberpunk novel by the English writer Richard K. Morgan.Set in a future in which interstellar travel and relative immortality is facilitated by transferring consciousnesses between bodies ("sleeves"), it follows the attempt of Takeshi Kovacs, a former U.N. elite soldier turned private investigator, to investigate a rich man's death.
In the Netflix series Altered Carbon, Kovacs is portrayed by Joel Kinnaman (in the body of Elias Ryker) in the show's first season, [10] Will Yun Lee (original body), [11] Byron Mann (Takeshi's prior body), [12] and Morgan Gao (Young Tak). [13] Anthony Mackie portrays the character in a different host body for the show's second season. [14]
Altered Carbon is an American cyberpunk television series created by Laeta Kalogridis and based on the 2002 novel of the same title by English author Richard K. Morgan. [1] In a world where consciousness can be transferred to different bodies, Takeshi Kovacs, a former soldier turned investigator, is released from prison in order to solve a murder.
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A graphic novel titled Altered Carbon: Download Blues, which continues to follow the character Takeshi Kovacs, was released in July 2019. An animated feature entitled Altered Carbon: Resleeved was released in 2020 on Netflix. Morgan's books are generally set in a post-extropianist dystopian world. Morgan described his "takeaway" of one of his ...
Approximately 30 years after Altered Carbon, Takeshi Kovacs is now serving in Carrera's Wedge, a mercenary organization that joins a war on a distant planet, Sanction IV, fighting against an anti-corporate-government rebel group. Pilot Jan Schneider recruits Kovacs to help him lay claim to a buried Martian artifact.
Kinnaman played Governor Will Conway in Seasons 4 and 5 of the American version of House of Cards on the streaming service Netflix, [42] and the protagonist Takeshi Kovacs in Netflix's Altered Carbon, [43] an adaption of Richard K. Morgan's hardboiled cyberpunk science fiction novel of the same name.
Set 253 years before the main events of season 1, and 283 years before the events of season 2, [3] Takeshi Kovacs, on the planet Latimer, must protect a tattooist while investigating the death of a yakuza boss alongside a no-nonsense CTAC. Altered Carbon: Resleeved was released on March 19, 2020, on Netflix [4] and received mixed reviews from ...