{"id":1212420,"date":"2023-12-15T06:55:59","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T11:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1212420"},"modified":"2023-12-15T06:55:59","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T11:55:59","slug":"apple-is-adapting-the-hugo-award-winning-sci-fi-book-series-murderbot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1212420","title":{"rendered":"Apple is adapting the Hugo Award-winning sci-fi book series Murderbot"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Hugo Award-winning The Murderbot Diaries<\/em><\/a> books from Martha Wells are becoming a 10-episode Apple TV+ series starring Alexander Skarsg\u00e5rd, Apple announced<\/a>. It will follow a self-aware “SecUnit” robot that must hide its free will in order to complete a dangerous assignment and comes from About a Boy<\/em> creators Chris and Paul Weitz.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Murderbot<\/em> is an action-packed sci-fi series, based on the award-winning books by Wells, about a self-hacking security android who is horrified by human emotion yet drawn to its vulnerable ‘clients,'” Apple wrote. “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.”<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

The Weitz brothers will write, direct and produce the series, while Skarsg\u00e5rd will also serve as executive producer. Apple TV+ currently offers other sci-fi series including Silo<\/em>, For All Mankind<\/em>, Invasion<\/em> and others. The streaming service needs to keep the content flowing as it has doubled Apple TV+ prices<\/a> in just over a year. At the same time, Apple is looking for the right kind of content as it aims to avoid hot-button topics following the cancellation<\/a> of The Problem with Jon Stewart<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Several Murderbot<\/em> chapters have made Engadget’s gift guides and recommended reading lists. We called the Fugitive Telemetry<\/em> novella a “banger” with “space intrigue and robotic mysteries” and recommended the earlier novella series in our 2019 holiday guide<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/apple-is-adapting-the-hugo-award-winning-sci-fi-book-series-murderbot-115559433.html?src=rss
\n
\nSource: Engadget – Apple is adapting the Hugo Award-winning sci-fi book series Murderbot<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Hugo Award-winning The Murderbot Diaries books from Martha Wells are becoming a 10-episode Apple TV+ series starring Alexander Skarsg\u00e5rd, Apple announced. It will follow a self-aware “SecUnit” robot that must hide its free will in order to complete a … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,110],"tags":[98],"class_list":["post-1212420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engadget","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-engadget"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1212420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1212420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1212420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1212420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}