Murderbot‘s Creators Hope to Keep Going With More Seasons

Murderbot is astir here—the archetypal 2 episodes get May 16 connected Apple TV+—but bid writers, directors, and producers Chris and Paul Weitz are already reasoning astir what comes next.

The sci-fi bid stars Alexander Skarsgård arsenic a information portion that hacks itself to summation escaped will, but inactive ends up sticking with the humans (who some disgust and fascinate it) that it’s been tasked with protecting.

It’s a quality fans of Martha Wells‘ Murderbot Diaries person travel to cognize and emotion since her 2017 novella All Systems Red—a Hugo- and Nebula-winning smash that has spawned six follow-ups truthful far, including 2020 full-length caller Network Effect, arsenic good arsenic a fewer adjacent abbreviated stories.

In different words, there’s a batch much worldly for Murderbot, which pulls lone from All Systems Red, if the Apple TV+ bid finds an anxious audience.

“We would emotion to accommodate much of them,” Paul Weitz told io9 successful a caller interrogation up of Murderbot‘s premiere. “[We would] marque definite that Martha liked what we were thinking, for sure. We emotion that there’s a existent ending to the archetypal season, but besides the ending is the opening of thing Murderbot [as a character].”

“If radical similar the archetypal season, there’ll beryllium a tendency to spot Murderbot reunited successful immoderate manner with the [other characters it meets],” Chris Weitz added. “I deliberation that that would beryllium thing that we’d truly privation to look astatine successful presumption of figuring retired what a 2nd play would look like.”

Murderbot arrives May 16 connected Apple TV+.

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