It’s official: The following chapter within the Blade Runner franchise is headed to Amazon.
Prime Video introduced Thursday that it has formally ordered the brand new live-action restricted collection Blade Runner 2099, with Ridley Scott on board as an govt producer. Silka Luisa (Shining Ladies) will function showrunner, whereas Michael Inexperienced (Blade Runner 2049) will function a non-writing EP.
“The unique Blade Runner, directed by Ridley Scott, is taken into account one of many best and most influential science-fiction films of all time, and we’re excited to introduce Blade Runner 2099 to our world Prime Video clients,” Amazon Studios’ head of worldwide tv Vernon Sanders mentioned in an announcement. “We’re honored to have the ability to current this continuation of the Blade Runner franchise, and are assured that by teaming up with Ridley, Alcon Leisure, Scott Free Productions, and the remarkably proficient Silka Luisa, Blade Runner 2099 will uphold the mind, themes, and spirit of its movie predecessors.”
Added Alcon Leisure co-CEOs Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson: “We’re delighted to proceed our working relationship with our pals at Amazon. And we’re past excited to proceed to increase the Blade Runner canon into a brand new realm with the provocative storyline that Silka has created. Audiences first found Ridley Scott’s good imaginative and prescient for Blade Runner 40 years in the past, and since then, it has grow to be one of the influential science-fiction movies of all time. Denis Villeneuve’s follow-up sequel, Blade Runner 2049, then grew to become among the finest reviewed sequels of all time. So, we acknowledge that we have now a really excessive bar to satisfy with this subsequent installment. Along with Silka and our companions at Amazon, and Scott Free Productions, we hope that we will reside as much as that normal and delight audiences with the subsequent technology of Blade Runner.”
Along with Scott, Luisa and Inexperienced, govt producers embody Kosove and Johnson, Ben Roberts, David W. Zucker, Clayton Krueger, Cynthia Yorkin, Frank Giustra, Isa Dick Hackett and Tom Spezialy (Watchmen) — the latter of whom can even function a author.
Blade Runner 2099 was first put into growth in February. Casting and a timetable for launch haven’t been introduced as of press time.
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