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Apple is making a Murderbot series starring Alexander Skarsgård (www.theverge.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I love Murderbot! The books are really short, so they'd adapt well to the screen.

I'm a little concerned about how to portray Murderbot, though. It's very explicitly genderless. I feel like Tarzan is a little too manly to do Murderbot justice. This would be the perfect role for some non-binary actor to get some representation. Like the adjudicator from John Wick.

[–] AFKBRBChocolate 2 points 10 months ago

It's really interesting how often, in discussions of the books, some people say they pictured Murderbot as male, some female, and some genderless. I thought the author made it explicitly genderless, but a non-trivial number of people went one way or the other.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Yeah I am confused by the masculine casting too, but I dont want to nitpick otherwise awesome news.