Last month, the Apple TV+ subscription-exclusive Murderbot earned an early Season 2 renewal, which isn’t too surprising since considering the positive reception it earned since premiering on the 2025 TV schedule. The show’s first season adapted the book All Systems Red by Martha Wells, and with six other stories comprising The Murderbot Diaries book series, and a seventh one on the way, there’s plenty of material to keep this show running for multiple seasons. That said, executive producer David S. Goyer informed CinemaBlend that Season 2 may take a different approach with adaptation compared to how Season 1 was handled.
Though my recent conversation with Goyer was largely covering the final season of Netflix’s The Sandman, including him breaking down those big twists in the finale and how he and co-creator Allan Heinberg were originally going to cameo in Morpheus’ funeral, we did spend some time discussing other topics. Along with the Man of Steel writer sharing his thoughts on James Gunn’s Superman, he also had this to say when I brought up Murderbot Season 2 and how showrunners Paul and Chris Weitz had said before Season 1 premiered that the next season could mash up the following three books in Martha Wells’ series:
