New Netflix show 'Altered Carbon' set in dystopian San Francisco

Netflix's series adaptation of Richard K. Morgan's 2002 cyberpunk novel "Altered Carbon" is set in the 2400s, where consciousness is digitized and transferrable on vertabrae-like hard drives. Netflix's series adaptation of Richard K. Morgan's 2002 cyberpunk novel "Altered Carbon" is set in the 2400s, where consciousness is digitized and transferrable on vertabrae-like hard drives. Photo: Katie Yu, Netflix Photo: Katie Yu, Netflix Image 1 of / 60 Caption Close New Netflix show 'Altered Carbon' set in dystopian San Francisco 1 / 60 Back to Gallery

Netflix's trailer for its new original TV show "Altered Carbon" features a Golden Gate Bridge in the distant future that isn't nearly as Instagrammable as it is today.

There are also flying cars in the show, which would likely improve traffic on 580, so there's that.

The show, starring Joel Kinnaman from "House of Cards" and James Purefoy from "Hap and Leonard," is set in a dystopian San Francisco 400 years into the future where human consciousness can be digitized and transferred into different bodies.

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It's based on a 2002 novel by sci-fi and fantasy writer Richard K. Morgan. The book won the 2003 Philip K. Dick Award for Best Novel.

Kinnaman plays Takeshi Kovacs, who is brought back to life by the richest man on earth, Laurens Bancroft, played by Purefoy. The beginning of the trailer is reminiscent of the first Matrix movie when Neo wakes up from a gooey pod after taking the red pill.

But it quickly differs from that storyline, with Kovacs being pretty upset that he was reborn. Bancroft eventually tells Kovacs that he wants him to solve a murder.

Joining Kinnaman and Purefoy in this Bay Area dystopia, which is premiering on Friday, Feb. 2 (Groundhog Day, we see what you did there, kinda, Netflix), are Chris Conner ("American Crime Story: The People vs. O.J. Simpson"), Martha Higareda ("Street Kings") and Renée Elise Goldsberry ("The Good Wife").

The show was created and written by Laeta Elizabeth Kalogridis, who wrote the "Alexander" and "Shutter Island" screenplays and co-wrote the screenplay for "Terminator Genisys," which also features San Francisco.