After showcasing a premiere date announcement teaser last week, the full teaser trailer for the upcoming Netflix seriesAltered Carbonhas been released online. Based on the cyberpunk noir novel of the same name byRichard K. Morgan, the sci-fi series takes place 300 years in the future, in a world where humans’ consciousness can be transferred into new bodies, allowing them to live for hundreds of years. But whenJames Purefoy’s incredibly wealthy Laurens Bancroft is murdered, he hires an interstellar warrior to solve the case.
Joel Kinnaman, ofThe KillingandRoboCopfame, plays that warrior, Takeshi Kovacs. He’s the lone surviving soldier from a group that was defeated in an uprising, and his mind was imprisoned for centuries until Laurens pulls him out. The show certainly looks to be visually quite stunning, which is no surprise given that it’s directed byMiguel Sapochnik, who helmed the “Battle of the Bastards” episode ofGame of Thrones. There are certainly strong hints ofBlade Runnerhere, and it’ll be interesting to see how the full series unfolds.
Check out the newAltered Carbontrailer below. Written and produced byLaeta Kalogridis(Shutter Island), the series also starsRenee Elise Goldsberry,Martha Higareda,Ato Essandoh,Chris Conner,Will Yun Lee, andDichen Lachman.Altered Carbonpremieres on Netflix on June 26, 2025.
Here’s the official synopsis forAltered Carbon:
Based on the classic cyberpunk noir novel by Richard K. Morgan, Altered Carbon is an intriguing story of murder, love, sex, and betrayal, set more than 300 years in the future. Society has been transformed by new technology: consciousness can be digitized; human bodies are interchangeable; death is no longer permanent. Takeshi Kovacs is the lone surviving soldier in a group of elite interstellar warriors who were defeated in an uprising against the new world order. His mind was imprisoned, “on ice”, for centuries until Laurens Bancroft, an impossibly wealthy, long-lived man, offers Kovacs the chance to live again. In exchange, Kovacs has to solve a murder … that of Bancroft himself. The series is produced by Skydance Television for Netflix.
