



Here's your daily "Netflix ordered a new show" news alert. The stupidly prolific video-streaming machine has committed to10 episodes of Altered Carbon, a sci-fi drama based on the Philip K. Dick Award-winning 2002 Richard Morgan novel of the same name, says Deadline.

So what is Altered Carbon about? Crazy cyberpunk stuff, dude. Altered Carbon is set in the 25th century after technology has figured out how to digitize "souls" (a person's personality, memories, and so forth) and download them into new bodies after death. The series is told from the point of view of Takeshi Kovacs, an interstellar warrior who is downloaded into a new body to solve a murder case. Sounds kinda rad, right? The series comes from Avatar producer Laeta Kalogridis, who also owns the rights to Morgan's other novels in the Takeshi Kovacs series. I smell sequels!

The series commitment is becoming almost daily standard routine for Netflix, which is boosting production to absurd levels as it slowly kills the traditional model of television. In 2016 alone, Netflix will spend $5 billion on content and double its breakout 2015 output.

Do you think you'll watch Altered Carbon?



