Netflix to go pure sci-fi with body-swapping 'Altered Carbon'

-Netflix is looking to the future for its latest original show.

-“Altered Carbon” will be based on the 2002 novel by Richard Morgan, the first in a series about cyberpunk hero Takeshi Kovacs. 

-Kovacs is a soldier-turned-cop in a future that sees human beings able to “resleeve” into new bodies when they die, their memories encoded into spinal implants.