Murderbot‘s First Trailer Shows Off Its Wry Mechanical Protagonist

His sanction is “Murderbot,” and helium doesn’t deliberation overmuch of humans—but the rogue information unit astatine the halfway of Apple TV+’s caller sci-fi drama thriller series is nary rage-filled sidesplitting machine. He’s much of a funny searcher and a instrumentality of trash TV, but helium will edifice to unit erstwhile necessary, a operation of property traits that confounds the carbon-based members of his crew.

Check retired the precise engaging archetypal trailer for Murderbot, starring Alexander Skarsgård arsenic the deadly android with the amazingly saccharine face.

Murderbot (a self-given name, by the way) is watching TV erstwhile helium should beryllium protecting his teammates, but successful his defense, The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon does look alternatively enthralling. Much much breathtaking than immoderate that elephantine centipede-thing is, but helium takes attraction of concern anyway.

Here’s the authoritative description, arsenic if you needed immoderate much enticement to ticker this one:

“Based connected Martha Wells’ best-selling, Hugo and Nebula Award winning publication bid The Murderbot Diaries, Murderbot is simply a sci-fi thriller/comedy astir a self-hacking information conception who is horrified by quality emotion yet drawn to its susceptible clients. Played by Skarsgård, Murderbot indispensable fell its escaped volition and implicit a unsafe duty erstwhile each it truly wants is to beryllium near unsocial to ticker futuristic soap operas and fig retired its spot successful the universe.”

The remainder of the formed includes Noma Dumezweni, David Dastmalchian, Sabrina Wu, Akshay Khanna, Tattiawna Jones, and Tamara Podemski. The amusement is enforcement produced by Skarsgård and comes from sibling filmmaking squad Chris and Paul Weitz (American Pie, About a Boy; Paul Weitz besides co-created Mozart successful the Jungle).

Murderbot arrives May 16 connected Apple TV+ with its archetypal 2 episodes; the remainder of the 10-episode play rolls retired Fridays done July 11.

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