I’ve just finished reading the last of the books, and I’m pretty excited to see what they do with the series.
So this is being developed by the people responsible for - variously - The Creator, American Pie, and Foundation?
Not exactly inspiring huge confidence in their ability to create thoughtful science fiction that respects and understands the core themes of the source material.
I’ve read the Murderbot books and enjoyed them, but I wouldn’t call them deep.
The mental health journey of murderbot is pretty subtle. That would be a pretty easy thing to screw-up.
“Already, there’s been some controversy surrounding the casting of Skarsgård, a cis man, as Murderbot, an android with no sexual characteristics (because, in Murderbot’s words, why would it need them, it’s not a sex bot).”
I really hope this is a joke that’s going over my head. Was the casting department supposed to rely on the wide pool of openly asexual actors?
Being asexual is an orientation, not a gender. Signed, an asexual cis male.
