Consciousness can be digitized…human bodies are interchangeable…and death is no longer permanent, welcome to the world of ALTERED CARBON where noBODY lives forever.

Detective Kristin Ortega (Martha Higareda) escorts Takeshi Kovacs (Joel Kinnaman) out of prison after Kovacs has been given a new life, a new body, and a new mission.
The mind of Takeshi Kovacs (Joel Kinnaman) was imprisoned — “put on ice” — for centuries until Laurens Bancroft (James Purefoy) offers Kovacs the chance to live again…in exchange for solving a single murder.

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.

Vernon Elliot (Ato Essandoh), a CTAC vet whose wife was imprisoned and whose daughter was killed, and Poe (Chris Conner), a centuries old and highly developed AI, discuss the stack — which holds the consciousness — of someone departed.

His mind was imprisoned, “on ice”, for centuries until Laurens Bancroft, an impossibly wealthy, long-lived man, offers Kovacs the chance to live again.

Laurens Bancroft (James Purefoy) — an impossibly wealthy, long-lived man — offers Kovacs (Joel Kinnaman) the chance to live again. In exchange, Kovacs has to solve a murder…that of Bancroft himself.

In exchange, Kovacs has to solve a murder … that of Bancroft himself. Altered Carbon launches on Netflix Friday, February 2.

Altered Carbon launches on Netflix Friday, February 2, 2018, on Netflix.