Ambitious, body-swapping sci-fi series Altered Carbon will be back for season 2 on Netflix, but – spoiler alert – as revealed at the end of the first, the main character will have a different look. Anthony Mackie is taking over for Joel Kinnaman.
In the first season, Kinnaman took on the role of Takeshi Kovacs, a soldier in a future world where mortality is a thing of the past – for a price. A human consciousness can be uploaded into a "stack" and then inserted into a new "sleeve" or body. Kovacs wakes up hundreds of years after his most recent death in the body of Ryker, police officer framed for a crime he didn't commit, and must track down a killer.
At the end of the season, Kovacs surrenders Ryker's body and assumes a new identity, one kept a mystery for viewers. Now we know he'll be played by Mackie. No specific story details or a return date for the series have been announced, but genre TV veteran Alison Schapker will serve as co-showrunner with Laeta Kalogridis, who adapted the Richard K. Morgan novels for the screen.
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