Also, a time jump of around 30 years seems likely.
Below,Altered Carbonshowrunner Laeta Kalogridis takes our burning questions about the finale and her season 2 plans.
And you laughed and were like, I had not thought of that.
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Smash cut to: Joel Kinnaman may be leavingAltered Carbon headlines.
I had no idea he had taken the gig.
I had no idea he was even up for it.
I sent him a congratulations.
So whats going on is: I dont have a second season yet.
I know Joel will be amazing in whatever he does.
I dont know what their schedule is, or what our schedule is.
And this is a world that allows you to never say never.
What about Kristin Ortega (Martha Higareda)?
There isnt anybody I wouldnt want to work with again.
Exactly what form that would take in that world, we have a lot of freedom.
I would never rule out working with Martha again ever.
I love her and what she brought to the role.
I think the universe of these books gives you more latitude.
Is Poe really gone?
He wants to be human, but part of humanity is a level of imperfection that Poe doesnt possess.
Thats interesting to me.
What were going to do with that, I dont know.
But I will say Poe has lost Lizzie (Haley Law) forever.
Theres no ever-after for those two.
AndKovacs sisterReileen is dead?Yes.
Within the world ofAltered Carbon, she is real-dead, stack-dead, all of her backups are corrupted.
Kovacs did succeed in completely destroying the person you saw.
I would argue that they bookend each other as brother and sister; she chooses that.
She got a look in his eyes at the mirror of herself.
But that version of Reileen who faced off against her brother at the Head in the Clouds is gone.
I can honestly tell you Ive never thought about that.
Seriously, theres something about that that creeps me out.
I totally have thought about Kovacs being a woman.
But no, we havent thought of that.
The first season roughly followed the first book by Richard K Morgan.
With space battles and giant portals and huge warships that are orbiting the planet and a thermonuclear explosion.
So that becomes very much a part of what were doing .
The emotional passage of time is always a good thing.
I couldnt pick one thing.
Okay, what was the biggest challenge to pull off?Stronghold.
Physically that was the most challenging.
So those snow-covered mountains in the background werent added?
Kovacs looked like he was in Middle Earth about to head over to the Misty Mountains.Thats Vancouver, man!
But yeah, thats all real.
Kovacs is walking away from Ortega, hes making all these choices, but is he sure?
Also, Ortega has renounced her coding.
You have two dead kids, but their stacks are intact.
You gonna spin those kids back up or not?
Whats she going to do?
Thats an interesting question.
This is an extrapolation and dramatization thats meant to make you uncomfortable and question the way our society functions.
