Prime Video Orders Live-Action ‘Blade Runner 2099’ Series
Prime Video has given a series order to ‘Blade Runner 2099‘, a live-action tv show, exec produced by Ridley Scott, set in the universe of the original ‘Blade Runner’ movie and the 2017 sequel.
Based on Philip K. Dick’s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, the original 1982 ‘Blade Runner’ film was set in a dystopian 2019 Los Angeles, where synthetic humans known as “replicants” are bio-engineered by the powerful Tyrell Corporation to work on space colonies. Harrison Ford stars as Deckard, a “Blade Runner” sent to track down a group of rogue replicants, one of which is played by Rutger Hauer.
The ‘Blade Runner 2049’ sequel was set 30 years after the events of the first film, with a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K (Ryan Gosling), who unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what’s left of society into chaos. K’s discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard (Ford), the former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years.
As the title of the live-action tv series rather suggests, the new show will take place 50 years after the events of the sequel. The script for the series comes from Silka Luisa, who created the Apple TV+ drama ‘Shining Girls’. The drama comes from Alcon Entertainment in association with Scott Free Productions and Amazon Studios.
“The original Blade Runner, directed by Ridley Scott, is considered one of the greatest and most influential science-fiction movies of all time, and we’re excited to introduce Blade Runner 2099 to our global Prime Video customers,” commented Vernon Sanders, head of global television, Amazon Studios. “We are honoured to be able to present this continuation of the Blade Runner franchise, and are confident that by teaming up with Ridley, Alcon Entertainment, Scott Free Productions, and the remarkably talented Silka Luisa, Blade Runner 2099 will uphold the intellect, themes, and spirit of its film predecessors.”
Alongside Luisa and Ridley Scott, the exec producers are David W. Zucker and Clayton Krueger (Alcon Entertainment), Frank Giustra, and Isa Dick Hackett (Scott Free Productions), and ‘Blade Runner 2049’ writer Michael Green. Tom Spezialy, who previously worked on ‘The Leftovers’ and ‘Watchmen’, will also EP and write on the series.
“We are delighted to continue our working relationship with our friends at Amazon. And we are beyond excited to continue to extend the Blade Runner canon into a new realm with the provocative storyline that Silka has created,” add Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson, co-CEOs and co-founders, Alcon Entertainment. “Audiences first discovered Ridley Scott’s brilliant vision for Blade Runner 40 years ago, and since then, it has become one of the most influential science-fiction films of all time. Denis Villeneuve’s follow-up sequel, Blade Runner 2049, then became one of the best-reviewed sequels of all time. So, we recognize that we have a very high bar to meet with this next instalment. Together with Silka and our partners at Amazon, and Scott Free Productions, we hope that we can live up to that standard and delight audiences with the next generation of Blade Runner.”
There is not casting or timeline yet as to when ‘Blade Runner 2099‘ will land on Prime Video, but we’ll let you know when we hear more. If you want to keep track of this or any other show, you can add it via our Never Miss system, and you’ll be notified when it gets a UK premiere date.
