Murderbot‘s Main Character Is Both Killing Machine and Sci-Fi Nerd

Murderbot creators, writers, directors, and executive producers (and brothers) Chris and Paul Weitz are huge fans of the Martha Wells Murderbot Diaries books, and they approached their Apple TV+ series from the same perspective. Sci-fi fans like what they like, including the show’s main character, played by Alexander Skarsgård: a Security Unit that’s hacked its own system, gained free will, and discovered the wild world of trashy TV. Its favorite show is The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon, a soapy space opera that most of the other characters disdain but Murderbot considers to be “premium entertainment.” And it would know: by the time we meet it on Murderbot, it’s consumed thousands of hours of entertainment programming. It enjoys the show, but Sanctuary Moon proves to be surprisingly influential, too, giving SecUnit much-needed inspiration when it needs it the most. “We loved the books. We wanted to treat this as if the character really existed,” Paul Weitz told io9 at a recent Mu ... Read full article.