Murderbot‘s Creators Hope to Keep Going With More Seasons

Murderbot is nearly here—the first two episodes arrive May 16 on Apple TV+—but series writers, directors, and producers Chris and Paul Weitz are already thinking about what comes next. The sci-fi series stars Alexander Skarsgård as a security unit that hacks itself to gain free will, but still ends up sticking with the humans (who both disgust and fascinate it) that it’s been tasked with protecting. It’s a character fans of Martha Wells‘ Murderbot Diaries have come to know and love since her 2017 novella All Systems Red—a Hugo- and Nebula-winning smash that has spawned six follow-ups so far, including 2020 full-length novel Network Effect, as well as a few adjacent short stories. In other words, there’s a lot more material for Murderbot, which pulls only from All Systems Red, if the Apple TV+ series finds an eager audience. “We would love to adapt more of them,” Paul Weitz told io9 in a recent interview ahead of Murderbot‘s premiere. “[We would] make sure that Martha liked what we ... Read full article.