Who else is hyped as fuck that Netflix is picking up Altered Carbon, with this dude cast as the lead?

Who else is hyped as fuck that Netflix is picking up Altered Carbon, with this dude cast as the lead?
How do you think theyll handle the main character changing bodies?

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I never read altered carbon. What's it about?

Just read the synopsis, wouldn't the show change that he's trained to handle different bodies by making it that he has multiple of the same body to work with?

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>In the novel's somewhat dystopian world, human personalities can be stored digitally and downloaded into new bodies, called sleeves. Most people have cortical stacks in their spinal columns that store their memories. If their body dies, their stack can be stored indefinitely. Catholics have arranged that they will not be resleeved as they believe that the soul goes to Heaven when they die, and so would not pass on to the new sleeve. This makes Catholics targets for murder, since killers know their victim will not be resleeved to testify. A UN resolution to alter this legal position forms one strand of the novel's plot, to allow the authorities to sleeve a deceased Catholic woman temporarily to testify in a murder trial.

>Kovacs is an ex-Envoy, a military unit formed to cope with the challenge of interstellar warfare. Faster-than-light travel is only possible by subspace transmission, called needlecasting, of a digitally stored consciousness to "download centers"[2] where resleeving into physical bodies can be carried out. Transmitting normal soldiers in this way would severely inhibit their effectiveness, since they would have to cope with a new body and an unknown environment while fighting. To combat this, Envoy training emphasises mental techniques necessary to survive in different bodies over physical strength, and the sleeve in which they are transmitted has special neuro-chemical sensors which amplify the power of the five senses, intuition and physical capabilities. The effectiveness of the Envoy Corps' training is such that Envoys are banned from holding governmental positions on most worlds.

>the main character changing bodies?

That sounds fucking dumb as shit

I cant wait for this shit, i hope sapochnik is direction all the eps, prolly not tho.

i also hope the series is succesful enough that they make it to book 2, i really want to see dat spacebattle

It makes for a great setting though. Getting a new sleeve is expensive, so when your average Joes wife dies, he has no control over what body she gets stuck in. Might be a hot 20-something beach-bod, Might be a 40 year old chain smoker with saggy tits.

The rich people just get their original bodies cloned and enhanced, with enough Cash you can even wirelessly back up your memories, so even if some psycho blows out your stack, you lose 48 hours at best. Making you effectively immortal.

i'm hyped as fuck op
i've been a huge cyberpunk fan all my life and this plus blade runner 2 feels like a renaissance of cyberpunk media is coming

i love altered carbon, neuromancer might be the more important book but altered carbon is defnitely more "fun" to read

do you think they'll get the visuals right though? i mean altered carbon is noir to it's core and i hope the series will be like that too

it needs to look like the book cover (pic related) and they better not hold back on the sex and violence that the novel depicts

Its a Netflix show, it Might get a fuckhuge budget like Marco Polo or it Might end up a shitshow like shadowhunters.

Getting the aesthetic down shoulderpads be a fairly simple job, they've got tons of reference material like blade runner, cyberpunk 2077 et al.

fuuuuuck i loved altered carbon for just pulpy scifi action. I feel another "I robot" coming

the worst case would be it looking like generic sci fi see i robot for example

But taking it from what it is, to generic polished, chrome sci fi is a massive leap.
Seeing as the general populace is fucked up on drugs, virtual porn and living in poverty, whereas i I, Robot the robot hordes work to better mankind ad a whole. Altered Carbon is a much darker, and more akin to the real world.

agreed but you never know with hollywood

i think the producer of the tv series called this a longtime passion project so i hope they get the feel of the novel right

i also have some faith in sapochnik even though repo man was trash

his work on GoT was fucking amazing though, if he does work of equilavent quality on this, the only thing barring it from being 10/10 is budget, producers and anyone else who might want to mainstream it.

When can we expect the controversy for picking a white guy to play someone named Takeshi? I know it's perfectly explained in the novel, but I just know there will still be some people upset by this

That really depends on how far the series will go, IIRC in book 1 hes a gnarly white dude, book 2 hes a black man and an asian, book 3 hes purely asians.

muh diversity!

Most people will prolly miss it tho, in most of book one hes called Kovacs, a slav surname.

Science fiction with a strong noir feel. Future where minds can be copied into new bodies after death or transmitted to another worlds.

It's pretty pulpy. To be 100% honest I won't even say it's good, it's just an well realised example of 'post' cyberpunk, ie more futuristic then neromancer but still grittier than Star Trek.

needs to be popular in the first place to get the tumblristas up in a tizzy.

also please god don't let them do the "'quantum leap" thing where its the same actor but the reflections are different people.

If it's on Netflix that automatically puts it on tumblr's radar i'm afraid

>you will never be loaded into the body of a menstruating teenage waif for the sake of being tortured/raped for information

this world isn't enough for me. it never will be

right now its a science fiction book for losers. Compared to, say, ghost in the shell, which was anime. One is hip to like, the other isn't.

>implying women ever actually watch anything on netflix