
Altered Carbon is a TV series created by Laeta Kalogridis in 2018 and based on the book of the same name by Richard K. Morgan, first published in 2002. The TV series features Joel Kinnaman, Martha Higareda, James Purefoy, Katie Stuart, Dichen Lachman, Lisa Chandler, and others.
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“The TV series is better than the book”
But the book is worth reading.
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Storyline
The series takes place over 360 years in the future , with most episodes the first season set in the year 2384, in a futuristic metropolis known as Bay City. In the first season, set 250 years after the Envoys are destroyed, his stack is pulled out of prison by 300-year-old Meth Laurens Bancroft, one of the wealthiest men in the settled worlds.
Movie vs Book

Year
2018
Minutes
60
Movie Rate
8.00
Source: IMDb
TV Series
Altered Carbon
Creator: Laeta Kalogridis
Country: USA
Year: 2018-2020
Length: 1h / 18 episodes

Year
2002
Pages
404
Book Rate
8.10
S: Goodreads
Book
Altered Carbon
Author: Richard K. Morgan
Country: UK
First published in: 2002
Length: 404 pages
Genre: Fiction
Book series: Takeshi Kovacs
User polls & recommendations
“Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed.”
VLADIMIR NABOKOV (Wrirter)

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