Murderbot Trailer has dropped
Seems to have the right tone, you also get a clip of Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon.
https://www.apple.com/tv-pr/news/2025/04/apple-tv-debuts-trailer-for-murderbot-new-sci-fi-series-starring-and-executive-produced-by-alexander-skarsgrd-and-premiering-globally-may-16-2025/Open linkView original on literature.cafe
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Will the whole series be in German is that just the name? Who is Mur? Why is he "The bot?"
You’re misreading the text flow—the title is actually “MDBUEORRT”, which is obviously Dutch.
Fucking hell, now it's all I can see 😅
Oh, please don't fuck this one up, too, Apple. Not this time. Please.
All the Apple original series I've watched have been excellent so far so here's to hoping for the best. The trailer was good enough in my opinion.
You like Foundation?
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I don't get coke? :(
/jk
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mean :(
Yeah this is too good of a book series for me to be OK with them fucking up.
But if they manage it well I might hope they do a locked tomb series. Assuming sufficient privilege to go off the rails.
I think I have read all the stories. Not once had I imagined the bot as anything other that androgynous but slightly feminine. Did I miss some passages?
I think it's left pretty open to interpretation. Murderbot is strongly agender in the books, but the text doesn't specify androgyny that I can recall. I do know the Martha Wells has been pretty involved in this and seems to really support the interpretation that Apple TV+ has developed.
That's how I read them, too. But my colleague watched the trailer with me and was surprised they were n't more buff and masculine, because that's his read on the character. He thought Murderbot thought like a guy.
I think its great people can have such connection to a character but wildly different interpretations of whatb they look like!