Murderbot’s First Trailer Reveals Off Its Wry Mechanical Protagonist

His identify is “Murderbot,” and he doesn’t suppose a lot of people—however the rogue security unit on the middle of Apple TV+’s new sci-fi comedy thriller series is not any rage-filled killing machine. He’s extra of a curious searcher and a fan of trash TV, however he will resort to violence when obligatory, a mix of persona traits that confounds the carbon-based members of his crew.

Try the very participating first trailer for Murderbot, starring Alexander Skarsgård because the lethal android with the surprisingly candy face.

Murderbot (a self-given identify, by the way in which) is watching TV when he must be defending his teammates, however in his protection, The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon does look somewhat enthralling. Way more thrilling than no matter that big centipede-thing is, however he takes care of enterprise anyway.

Right here’s the official description, as if you happen to wanted any extra enticement to look at this one:

“Based mostly on Martha Wells’ best-selling, Hugo and Nebula Award successful e book collection The Murderbot Diaries, Murderbot is a sci-fi thriller/comedy a few self-hacking safety assemble who’s horrified by human emotion but drawn to its weak purchasers. Performed by Skarsgård, Murderbot should cover its free will and full a harmful task when all it actually needs is to be left alone to look at futuristic cleaning soap operas and work out its place within the universe.”

The remainder of the solid contains Noma Dumezweni, David Dastmalchian, Sabrina Wu, Akshay Khanna, Tattiawna Jones, and Tamara Podemski. The present is government produced by Skarsgård and comes from sibling filmmaking staff Chris and Paul Weitz (American Pie, A few Boy; Paul Weitz additionally co-created Mozart within the Jungle).

Murderbot arrives Might 16 on Apple TV+ with its first two episodes; the remainder of the 10-episode season rolls out Fridays by means of July 11.

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