It’s rogue. It’s powerful. It’s Alexander Skarsgård’s “Murderbot” and he’d rather be watching soap operas in the first trailer for Apple TV’s upcoming sci-fi comedy series. “Murderbot” premieres on Apple TV+ with the first two episodes on May 16, followed by new episodes every Friday through July 11. A rogue security unit searches for the […]
It’s rogue. It’s powerful. It’s Alexander Skarsgård’s “Murderbot” and he’d rather be watching soap operas in the first trailer for Apple TV’s upcoming sci-fi comedy series.
“Murderbot” premieres on Apple TV+ with the first two episodes on May 16, followed by new episodes every Friday through July 11.
A rogue security unit searches for the meaning of life in the series based on the bestselling book series The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells, who serves as consulting producer. “Murderbot” was created, written, and directed by Academy Award nominees Chris & Paul Weitz (About a Boy, “Mozart in the Jungle”).
The 10-episode series follows a self-hacking security android (Skarsgård) who is uninterested in and horrified by human emotion yet drawn to its vulnerable “clients.” Murderbot must hide its free will as it reluctantly joins a new mission protecting scientists on a dangerous planet, when all it really wants is to be left alone to watch futuristic soap operas and figure out its place in the universe.
“It’s not interested in humans, humans are idiots,” Skarsgård recently told Empire of his inhuman character. “It’s kind of appalled by them, and it’s been treated horribly by all its clients up until this moment. But then it ends up on this weird planet with this weird group of humans that are outside the corporate system, and they don’t believe in indentured servitude, they want to talk to Murderbot and invite Murderbot in, instead of storing it in the tool shed, like other clients have done, and that freaks Murderbot out.”
Late Night with the Devil star David Dastmalchian plays Gurathin, a human whose gifts as a hacker are enhanced by an interface implanted within him.
The cast also includes Noma Dumezweni, Sabrina Wu, Akshay Khanna, Tattiawna Jones, and Tamara Podemski.
Hailing from Paramount Television Studios, “Murderbot” is produced by Weitz brothers under their Depth of Field banner. Andrew Miano also executive produces for Depth of Field. David S. Goyer executive produces alongside Keith Levine for Phantom Four.
