In the past we’ve heard that Ridley Scott had plans to bring Blade Runner to the small screen. The director of the original 1982 film has gone so far as to say the first episode of a TV series has already been written. Now it seems the project has found a home.
Deadline is reporting that Blade Runner 2099, a sequel to the Denis Villeneuve directed Blade Runner 2049, has setup home at Amazon Studios putting the series in to active development.
Silka Luisa, showrunner of Apple TV+’s upcoming Elisabeth Moss-fronted drama series Shining Girls,is writing and exec producing Blade Runner 2099,which comes from Alcon Entertainment in association with Scott Free Productions and Amazon Studios.
The studio is said to be fast tracking the project and is already eyeing potential dates for the start of production. Whilst we’re far from seeing cameras roll there are rumours that Scott will step in to direct the project which is currently looking to hire a full production staff.
1982’s Blade Runner, which is an adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, is set in a dystopian LA in 2019, in which synthetic humans known as replicants are bio-engineered by the powerful Tyrell Corporation to work on space colonies. When a fugitive group of advanced replicants escape back to Earth, a cop reluctantly agrees to hunt them down. Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young and Edward James Olmos starred.
The 2017 sequel, which is set in 2049, starred Ryan Gosling as a replicant blade runner, who uncovers a secret that threatens to destabilize society. Ford and Olmos reprised their roles from the original and it also featured Ana de Armas, Dave Bautista and Jared Leto.
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