Blade Runner 2099
Summary
Prime Video’sBlade Runner 2099sequel show sum up a star topology ofThe Hunger Games : The Ballad of Songbirds and SnakesandEuphoriato the plaster cast alongside Michelle Yeoh . Ridley Scott is in the producer ’s chair for the next expanding upon of theBlade Runneruniverse . Set fifty yr after Denis Villeneuve’sBlade Runner 2049 , the new sequel show is set to begin take in June 2024 .
With camera getting set to wheel any day now onBlade Runner 2099 , the show has reportedly addedEuphoriaandHunger Gamesfranchise ace Hunter Schafer as a co - lead alongside the previously - announced Yeoh ( viaTHR ) . Details on Schafer ’s character are being keep under wrap , as are all other detail about the extremely - anticipated Amazon Prime serial publication .
Schafer Joins Scott’s Latest Continuation Of The Blade Runner Story
Scott ’s originalBlade Runnermovierevolutionized skill fiction when it get out in 1982 . Featuring groundbreaking visuals , the noir - inspired motion-picture show limit a tone for gritty futurist sci - fi that would root on filmmakers for years to amount . One of those filmmakers , Villeneuve , take over directorial duty on 2017’sBlade Runner 2049 , the long - wait sequel to Scott ’s original classic .
Blade Runner 2049was something of a box office letdown , grossing just $ 267 million worldwide , and now Scott will sprain to Prime Video and the small silver screen in once again blow up the universe he introduced back in 1982 . Silka Luisa ( Shining Girls ) serves as showrunner onBlade Runner 2099 , bringing a new perspective to the material , with a story Scott has likened to Aldous Huxley ’s classic novelBrave New World .
The first twoBlade Runner 2099episodes will be manoeuver by Jonathan van Tulleken ( Shogun )
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It ’s yet to be seen what courageous new take on Scott ’s sci - fi universe Luisa has in memory board for looker whenBlade Runner 2099reaches Prime Video . The cast is becoming intriguing after the additions of Yeoh and Schafer , the latter of whom made a potent impression as Tigris in the recentHunger Gamesprequel movie , after gather care as Jules in HBO’sEuphoria . WithEuphoriacurrently on hiatus , Schafer has room in her agenda to join Yeoh , Luisa and caller as they embark upon the up-to-the-minute good continuation of the sci - fi journey Scott get with Harrison Ford way back in 1982 .
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Blade Runner 2099 is a television series create for Prime Video and takes shoes fifty years after 2017 ’s Blade Runner 2049 . Ridley Scott and Silka Luisa are executive manufacturer of the serial , with current plot details still under wrapper .
