Murderbot debuts May 16 on Apple TV+. In addition to Skarsgård, the series also stars Noma Dumezweni, David Dastmalchian, Sabrina Wu, Akshay Khanna, Tattiawna Jones, and Tamara Podemski.

Apple TV+ has shared the first images of Alexander Skarsgård in its upcoming sci-fi series, "Murderbot." Based on Martha Wells' Hugo and Nebula Award-winning book series "The Murderbot Diaries," the show follows a self-hacking security construct (Skarsgård) that finds itself simultaneously put off by human emotion and yet drawn to its clients in spite of that.

Succession and Big Little Lies alum Alexander Skarsgård's new sci-fi comedic thriller, Murderbot, is set to premiere on Apple TV+ May 16. Skarsgård plays the title character, a robot who "must hide its free will and complete a dangerous assignment when all it really wants is to be left alone to watch futuristic soap operas and figure out its place in the universe,