Netflix Renews Altered Carbon For Season Two

Netflix is giving Altered Carbon a second season. The service announced on Friday that Anthony Mackie will star in the eight-episode second season, taking on the role of Takeshi Kovacs that Joel Kinnaman played in season one.

In the world of Altered Carbon, the journey of Takeshi Kovacs spans hundreds of years, many different bodies, and planets. This allows the story to explore themes of identity, morality, and the human soul. In this new season, Anthony Mackie will be the new embodiment of Kovacs as the series continues to expand on these deeper themes and ideas across longer periods of times and different worlds throughout the universe.

In season one, society has been transformed by new technology: consciousness can be digitized; human bodies are interchangeable; death is no longer permanent. Takeshi Kovacs (Joel Kinnaman) is the lone surviving soldier in a group of elite interstellar warriors who were defeated in an uprising against the new world order. His mind was imprisoned, “on ice”, for centuries until Laurens Bancroft (James Purefoy), an impossibly wealthy, long-lived man, offers Kovacs the chance to live again. In exchange, Kovacs has to solve a murder … that of Bancroft himself.