Netflix certainly seems to be on a roll. From Stranger Things to Sense8, it has invested in some quality science fiction. However, it’s newest offering, Altered Carbon, promises to be even bigger and even better.

It’s based on Richard K. Morgan’s cyberpunk noir novel and set some 300 years in the future. The 10-part series takes place in a dystopian world where human consciousnesses is digitized and stored in cortical stacks implanted in the spine, allowing humans to survive physical death by having their memories and consciousness “re-sleeved” into new bodies.

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The story follows specially trained “Envoy” soldier Takeshi Kovacs – played by both Will Yun Lee (The Wolverine) and Joel Kinnaman (Robocop, Suicide Squad) – who is downloaded from an off-world prison and into the body of a disgraced cop at the behest of Laurens Bancroft (played by James Purefoy), a highly influential aristocrat. Bancroft was killed and the last automatic backup of his stack was made hours before his death, leaving him with no memory of who killed him and why. While police ruled it a suicide, Bancroft is convinced he was murdered and wants Kovacs to find out the truth.

The pilot is being directed by Miguel Sapochnik who also directed the episode “Battle of the Bastards” in Game of Thrones and it certainly has a high quality, Blade Runner-esque look and feel to the production, ’cause that’s basically what the world will be like, right?

Altered Carbon launches on Netflix on Friday, 2 February 2018.

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