Sci-fi meets Skarsgård in Murderbot! Emmy Award winner Alexander Skarsgård is returning to the small screen — and this time around, he's playing an android.
Discussing Murderbot with GQ in 2024, the Big Little Lies actor shared, "I play an android who has hacked his system so he’s got — or it’s got — free will, and it’s talking about going on these crazy adventures, but instead it’s watching soap operas."
Apple TV+ announced in 2023 that it was expanding its slate with the series from Academy Award nominees Chris and Paul Weitz. Skarsgård not only stars in the comedic thriller, but is also an executive producer alongside the Weitz brothers.
From the cast to the release date, here is everything to know about Murderbot.
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The series, hailing from Paramount Television Studios, will stream on Apple TV+.
Murderbot premiere?
Murderbot will debut on May 16.
The sci-fi series will be comprised of 10 episodes.
Murderbot be released?
The show will premiere with the first two episodes on May 16, followed by new episodes every Friday through July 11.
According to Apple TV+, Murderbot is "about a self-hacking security construct who is horrified by human emotion yet drawn to its vulnerable clients. Played by Skarsgård, 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."
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Murderbot?
Alexander Skarsgård leads the cast of Murderbot. The ensemble cast also includes Noma Dumezweni, David Dastmalchian, Sabrina Wu, Akshay Khanna, Tattiawna Jones and Tamara Podemski.
Meet the cast of Murderbot:
Noma Dumezweni
Sabrina Wu
Tattiawna Jones
Tamara Podemski
The Apple TV+ show is based on Martha Wells' bestselling book series The Murderbot Diaries. The author, who served as a consulting producer, has previously admitted that she's "really happy with how" the show turned out.
During an "Author Talk" with the City of Mountain View Public Library, Wells said, "With Murderbot, it's very difficult to keep it close to the book because it's a first-person narrative that's very internal and, especially later on, in the later volumes, a lot of stuff just happens inside software, so you have to take that and make it basically, you know, three-dimensional visual and so the story does have to change and we talked about it throughout what the changes would look like."
Murderbot?
Neither a trailer nor teaser has been released just yet, but Apple TV+ shared a first look at Skarsgård in the series on Feb. 20:
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