Amazon should really feel like its TV lineup has a sci-fi hole, as a result of Selection studies (opens in new tab) the corporate has now formally ordered Blade Runner 2099, a live-action collection presumably set 50 years after Blade Runner 2049.
Work on Amazon’s Blade Runner present (opens in new tab) has been underway for some time, with studies that the corporate started fast-tracking improvement final February. That work should have paid off to somebody’s satisfaction, as a result of Amazon is now pot-committed to producing an entire sequel collection.
Aside from the inference you may make from the collection’ identify—that it takes place 50 years after 2049—Amazon is conserving very quiet concerning the plot particulars of the present. We do know that Silka Luisa—who wrote and produced on Paramount’s Halo TV collection—has been drafted to function showrunner. Ridley Scott will govt produce alongside Blade Runner 2049 co-writer Michael Inexperienced and varied different folks from a bunch of manufacturing firms.
And that is… just about all we all know, moreover an announcement from Amazon Studios’ head of world tv Vernon Sanders, who guarantees the present will “uphold the mind, themes, and spirit of its movie predecessors”. I will imagine it once I see it, although there would a minimum of be some scrumptious irony within the firm behind the Amazon warehouse (opens in new tab) delivering a prolonged meditation on alienation and the commodification of labour.
There is no date on this one but, nor even a possible yr of launch, so we’re most likely going to be ready some time to learn the way properly Amazon does at translating the movie’s universe to TV. Whilst you wait, you may try Westwood’s traditional Blade Runner recreation (opens in new tab), which truly does a spectacular job of translating the movie’s concepts to a brand new medium. Greatest keep away from the remaster (opens in new tab) although, it is nonetheless in tough form.
