Upcoming Netflix series "Altered Carbon" releases new details about the show in an extended trailer.
The 82-second sci-fi teaser features the voice of Laurens Bancroft (James Purefoy), the richest man on Earth, as well as a few other planets. "The first time I died, I was 99," he says.
A new technology revived him, by transferring his consciousness to a younger body. He lived and re-lived that way for hundreds of years. On his 365<sup>th year, he dies again, but this time, he believes he was murdered.
The police say he killed himself, but he insists that there is someone else behind it. With planets worth of resources at the tip of his fingers, he hires former special forces soldier Takeshi Kovacs (Joel Kinnaman) to solve the mystery behind his latest death.
The trailer shows Kovacs in a series of brutal fights, amid a set that gives a lot of "Blade Runner" feels.
The new extended trailer comes just a few days since the first teaser was released. In early December, Netflix also released a social tease for the cyberpunk series. Critics believe the subscription portal is hyping up promotions for the sure success of the very expensive sci-fi adventure.
"Altered Carbon" is based on the 2002 Richard K. Morgan novel of the same title. Set in a dystopian future, it is a world where the poor live in densely populated cities, while the mega-rich literally look down on them from their homes above the clouds, as their skyscrapers tower over everything else.
Apart from this privilege, the rich also get a much longer life. A technology saves their consciousness in computers so that when they die, their minds could be transferred to cloned bodies, called sleeves.
The main protagonist, Kovacs, has a mind that is trained for interstellar warfare. It was downloaded into a sleeve that once belonged to a cop -- a deadly combination for anyone who tries to hinder his investigation.
"Altered Carbon" starts streaming on Netflix on Feb. 2, 2018.
