According to Deadline, Apple TV+ has picked up Murderbot, 10-episode sci-fi drama series starring and executive produced by Alexander Skarsgård (Zoolander, True Blood). The series is based on author Martha Wells’ bestselling book series The Murderbot Diaries. The project was created by Chris and Paul Weitz (About a Boy, American Pie) and Paramount Television Studios. Murderbot was green-lit over a year ago but was delayed due to the writer and actor strikes.
According to Deadline, “the series centers on a self-hacking security android (Skarsgård) who is horrified by human emotion yet drawn to its vulnerable “clients.” Murderbot must hide its free will and complete a dangerous assignment when all it really wants is to be left alone to watch futuristic soap operas and figure out its place in the universe.”
No further details about the series are available at the moment.
Skarsgård recently appeared in Lee, a British biographical drama film adapted from the 1985 book The Lives of Lee Miller by Antony Penrose. Skarsgård acts alongside Kate Winslet (Titanic, Avatar: The Way of Water), Marion Cotillard (Inception, The Dark Knight Rises), and Andrea Riseborough (Oblivion, To Leslie). He also starred in the final season of HBO’s Succession.
Chris Weitz was recently a co-writer on Gareth Edwards’s film The Creator. Paul Weitz recently directed, wrote, and produced Moving On starring Lily Tomlin (The West Wing, Nashville) and Jane Fonda (The Newsroom, The Dollmaker).
Skarsgård is repped by CAA and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman, Newman, Warren, Richman, Rush, Kaller, Gellman, Meigs & Fox.
Chris and Paul Weitz are repped by UTA and Yorn, Levine, Barnes, Krintzman, Rubenstein, Kohner, Endlich, Goodell & Gellman.