Currently running on Netflix is the second season of their cyberpunk series Altered Carbon, starring Anthony Mackie as the new Takeshi Kovacs. Based on author Richard K. Morgan’s sci-fi novel of the same name, the series is scheduled to return on February 27.
In Altered Carbon Season 2, Anthony Mackie takes over the role of Takeshi Kovacs from Joel Kinnaman. Kovacs is a former soldier who became a revolutionary, then a mercenary for hire. Aggressively independent, Kovacs swears allegiance to no man or woman except one: Quellcrist Falconer. His undying quest to reconnect with her spans multiple centuries, planets and sleeves.
Season 2 begins 30 years after the epic conclusion of Season 1, and finds Takeshi Kovacs (Anthony Mackie), the lone surviving soldier of a group of elite interstellar warriors, continuing his centuries old quest to find his lost love Quellcrist Falconer (Renée Elise Goldsberry). After decades of planet-hopping and searching the galaxy, Kovacs is recruited back to his home planet of Harlan’s World with the promise of finding Quell. Haunted by his past and responsible for investigating a series of brutal murders, Kovacs is stunned to discover his new mission to solve the crime and his pursuit to find Quell are one and the same. With the help of his loyal A.I. Poe (Chris Conner), Kovacs must now partner with new allies to outwit his enemies and find the truth: Who is Quellcrist Falconer?
Season 2 also stars Lela Loren (Power) as Danica Harlan, Simone Missick (Luke Cage) as Trepp, Dina Shihibi (Daredevil) as Dig 301, Torben Liebrecht (Operation Finale) as Colonel Ivan Carrera and James Santo as Tanaseda Hideki.
It will also the feature returning cast members Renee Elise Goldsberry (One Life to Live) as Quellcrist Falconer, Chris Conner (American Crime Story) as Edgar Poe and Will Yun Lee, who was the original Takeshi Kovacs, who existed in his original body over 200 years before the start of the series and whose spirit has gone on through various bodies entitled sleeves with an alien technology known as a cortical stack.
Blackfilm.com’s Wilson Morales talks to Renee Elise Goldsberry and Simone Missick about Altered Carbon Season 2
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