Amazon Studios Is Making A Sequel Series To “Blade Runner 2049”
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Per News Reelz:
The world of Blade Runner is heading to the small screen. It has been announced that Amazon Studios has put a live-action series set in the Blade Runner universe into development.
Ridley Scott, who directed the original 1982 Blade Runner movie, is executive producing the series, Blade Runner 2099, a follow-up to the feature film sequel Blade Runner 2049, which was released in 2017 and directed by Denis Villeneuve.
The show is in priority development at Amazon and they’re fast tracking scripts while eyeing potential production dates. Staffing is currently underway for writers to join a room. Scott may direct if the series moves forward.
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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