‘Blade Runner 2049’ Sequel Collection Ordered at Amazon

Amazon has formally ordered a “Blade Runner” sequel sequence, Selection has discovered.

The live-action mission, titled “Blade Runner 2099,” was first introduced as being in development at the streamer back in February, whereas Ridley Scott first revealed the show was in the works in November 2021.

Actual plot particulars are being saved below wraps, however the title signifies the present will happen fifty years after the occasions of “Blade Runner 2049,” the 2017 sequel to the unique “Blade Runner.” Silka Luisa serves as showrunner and government producer, with Ridley Scott additionally government producing below his Scott Free Productions banner.

Michael Inexperienced, the co-writer of “Blade Runner 2049,” may even government produce with Alcon Leisure co-founders Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson, Alcon’s head of tv Ben Roberts, David W. Zucker and Clayton Krueger of Scott Free, Cynthia Yorkin, Frank Giustra, and Isa Dick Hackett. Tom Spezialy has joined the writers room and also will function an government producer.

“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 international Prime Video prospects,” mentioned Vernon Sanders, head of world tv for Amazon Studios. “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 gifted Silka Luisa, ‘Blade Runner 2099’ will uphold the mind, themes, and spirit of its movie predecessors.”

Alcon Leisure first acquired the movie, TV, and ancillary franchise rights to “Blade Runner” in 2011. The corporate has since financed and produced “Blade Runner 2049” in addition to the Grownup Swim/Crunchyroll anime sequence “Blade Runner: Black Lotus.”

“We’re delighted to proceed our working relationship with our mates at Amazon,” Kosove and Johnson mentioned. “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 crucial influential science-fiction movies of all time. Denis Villeneuve’s follow-up sequel, ‘Blade Runner 2049,’ then turned among the best 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 customary and delight audiences with the following era of ‘Blade Runner.’”

The unique “Blade Runner” movie was launched in 1982. It’s loosely based mostly on the Philip Ok. Dick guide “Do Androids Dream of Electrical Sheep?” Harrison Ford starred together with Rutger Hauer, Sean Younger, and Edward James Olmos amongst others. The movie was not a field workplace success upon its authentic launch however obtained robust important acclaim and has gone on to attain cult standing. Along with the unique theatrical launch, a director’s minimize was launched in 1992 adopted by “The Ultimate Lower” in 2007.

“Blade Runner 2049” noticed Ford and Olmos reprise their authentic roles, with Ryan Gosling, Jared Leto, Ana de Armas, Sylvia Hoeks, Robin Wright, Mackenzie Davis, Carla Juri, Lennie James, and Dave Bautista becoming a member of the forged. Like the unique, the sequel obtained typically optimistic evaluations from critics. It grossed over $259 million worldwide in opposition to a reported finances of $150 million.

“Blade Runner 2099” is the most recent large-scale style present Amazon has labored on lately. Most famously, the streaming arm of the net retail big is at present airing “Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Energy.” There are additionally reveals just like the spy thriller “Jack Ryan,” the not too long ago concluded sci-fi drama “The Expanse,” and the fantasy sequence “The Wheel of Time.”