Murderbot’s Creators Hope to Hold Going With...

Murderbot is almost right here—the primary two episodes arrive May 16 on Apple TV+—however collection writers, administrators, and producers Chris and Paul Weitz are already interested by what comes subsequent.

The sci-fi collection stars Alexander Skarsgård as a safety unit that hacks itself to realize free will, however nonetheless finally ends up sticking with the people (who each disgust and fascinate it) that it’s been tasked with defending.

It’s a personality followers of Martha Wells‘ Murderbot Diaries have come to know and love since her 2017 novella All Programs Purple—a Hugo- and Nebula-winning smash that has spawned six follow-ups thus far, together with 2020 full-length novel Network Effect, in addition to a number of adjoining quick tales.

In different phrases, there’s much more materials for Murderbot, which pulls solely from All Programs Purple, if the Apple TV+ collection finds an keen viewers.

“We’d like to adapt extra of them,” Paul Weitz instructed io9 in a latest interview forward of Murderbot‘s premiere. “[We would] ensure that Martha preferred what we have been considering, for certain. We love that there’s an actual ending to the primary season, but additionally the ending is the start of one thing Murderbot [as a character].”

“If folks like the primary season, there’ll be a want to see Murderbot reunited in some style with the [other characters it meets],” Chris Weitz added. “I feel that that may be one thing that we’d actually need to have a look at when it comes to determining what a second season would appear to be.”

Murderbot arrives Might 16 on Apple TV+.

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