
“We had one set that was three football fields deep,” said Joel Kinnaman in an interview while describing the elaborate set at the Surrey studio. It stars Joel Kinnaman, who is no stranger to Vancouver after spending years in the city filming AMC and Netflix’s The Killing and the remake of RoboCop. Their consciousness and memories are “uploaded” to a storage device implanted into their bodies, allowing them to switch sleeves and essentially live forever. In fact, this season had a larger production budget than Game of Thrones’ early seasons, and it clearly showed with its Blade Runner vibe.Īltered Carbon is set in gritty Bay City, what was known as San Francisco, in the 24th century when the ultra wealthy are able to transfer their consciousness to a “sleeve” – also known today as a human body.

The series is the video on-demand giant’s latest attempt to provide itself with its equivalent of Game of Thrones.


