‘Blade Runner’ TV Show Moves Forward at Amazon

The future’s so bleak, I gotta put on shades and diverse different moody noir garments.

It’s time to return as soon as once more to the neon-lit, ultra-depressing way forward for Blade Runner, this time as a TV present on Amazon. Long in improvement, the sequence — titled Blade Runner 2099 — will proceed the saga of this doomed way forward for people and replicants about 50 years after the latest movie, 2018’s Blade Runner 2049.

Executive producer (and Blade Runner director) Ridley Scott and a complete artistic group that features showrunner Silka Luisa have been growing the sequence for some time, however now comes phrase that Jeremy Podeswa has come aboard the undertaking as a director. Podeswa is a prolific TV director, whose previous initiatives embrace Dexter, Boardwalk Empire, American Horror Story, The Walking Dead, and 6 episodes of Game of Thrones. He not too long ago directed three episodes of the critically acclaimed present Station Eleven.

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This isn’t Blade Runner’s first foray into tv. A number of years in the past, Adult Swim aired Blade Runner: Black Lotus, a 13-episode animated sequence set within the Blade Runner universe, however following new characters. Scott first teased the existence of this live-action Blade Runner TV undertaking in 2021.

The authentic Blade Runner adopted a detective character performed by Harrison Ford as he tracked down rogue “replicants,” synthetic beings who had been primarily handled as slaves. It was a thriller blended with science-fiction, stuffed with weighty themes in regards to the nature of existence. Ridley Scott’s most well-liked minimize of the film even made it unclear whether or not Ford’s character was himself one of many replicants he was employed to seek out.

There’s nonetheless no phrase on a launch date for the Blade Runner sequence, or any casting bulletins.