Apple TV+ unveils the trailer for a new comedic sci-fi series that sees Alexander Skarsgrd as a sentient AI cyborg

Date:
Thu, 10 Apr 2025 08:35:28 +0000

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Apple TV+ releases the trailer for a new comedy sci-fi series called
Murderbot.

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Its hard to believe it was way back in December of 2023 when we first learned that Alexander Skarsgrd ( True Blood , The Northman ) would star as
Murderbot, the snarky rogue SecUnit in Apple TV+s adaptation of Martha Wellss Nebula and Hugo Award-winning The Murderbot Diaries series of far future
sci-fi novels and novellas that began with 2017s All Systems Red .

After sterile images of an emotionless Skarsgrd in a sweet cyborg suit and circular mask were revealed this past February, Apple TV+ has now treated Murderbot faithful fans with the first full trailer for the live-action show, which launches on May 16 with a special two-episode premiere and it looks
like it has the making to be one of the best Apple TV+ shows .

This ten-episode Murderbot series hatched by Paramount Television Studios and quirky creators Chris and Paul Weitz ( About a Boy ) chronicles the semi-strange life of "a self-hacking security android 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."

Enjoy Apple TV+s outrageously funny sneak peek at Murderbot (see trailer
below) and the insipid humans that inhabit the sentient machines futuristic workplace world, filled with The Office -like gags, dry situational humor, corny sci-fi soap operas, a ginormous alien centipede, and all paired with Stealers Wheels bubble gum pop classic 'Stuck in the Middle With You', which youll recall from Quentin Tarantinos crazy crime thriller, Reservoir Dogs .

Skarsgrds genderless, free-thinking android will be joined by fellow
Murderbot ensemble cast members Noma Dumezweni, David Dastmalchian, Sabrina
Wu, Akshay Khanna, Tattiawna Jones, and Tamara Podemski.

It just doesnt get humans at all, Skarsgrd recently told Vanity Fair . Its
not a deep hatred, its just zero amount of curiosity. Its confused by humans and wants to get away from them.

This highly anticipated project is written and directed by The Weitz brothers out of their Depth of Field creative shingle beside executive producer Andrew Miano. David S. Goyer ( Blade , The Dark Knight Trilogy , Foundation ) executive produces in partnership with Keith Levine for Phantom Four. Author Martha Wells is also on board the series as a consulting producer.

Murderbot powers up exclusively on Apple TV+
with a dual-episode launch on May 16, 2025, followed by fresh
chapters each Friday through July 11.

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