Netflix’s Altered Carbon season 2 trailer sees Marvel star Anthony Mackie take over role of Takeshi Kovacs
NETFLIX’S Altered Carbon season two trailer sees Marvel star Anthony Mackie take over the role of Takeshi Kovacs.
The character was played by Suicide Squad actor Joel Kinnaman in season one, but as Takeshi looks into a shard of a broken mirror, his previous faces – or sleeves – flash across until it settles on Anthony’s.
The sci-fi series allows human souls and consciousness to be transferred from body to body; theoretically allowing them to live forever.
Anthony will now play the soldier-turned-detective, and can be heard in voiceover in the trailer saying: “Technology has conquered death, but with endless futures, comes endless pasts.”
He continues: “We are trailed by spectres. They cling to us like shadows… But if you chase after your ghosts, you just might become one.”
The eight-episode season is set 30 years after the series one finale and sees Takeshi continuing his search across the galaxy to find his long lost love, Quellcrist Falconer (Renee Elise Goldsberry).
However, he also has to track down a killer, and after returning two his home planet, Takeshi realises his two missions are linked.
The series is based on the 2002 novel of the same name by author Richard K. Morgan.
Richard previously spoke about the Netflix series, which features many of the brutal scenes described in the book.
He told The Guardian: “There’s no limit to my capacity for vindictive violence, I think, if some of these switches are tripped.
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“I’m not a fan of violence but I love it in my entertainment. Everything I write is interrogating that paradox.
“A lot of my writing comes from rage. It’s all been vomited out on to the page.
“I’m incensed by how badly humans behave. I guess what it’s about is wasted potential.
“We could be so much better. We always trip up, always manage to f*** it up. We seem to have a will to do that.”
Season two of Altered Carbon premieres on Netflix on February 27.