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Amazon will produce the Blade Runner 2099 series!

Blade Runner fans are over the moon. Not only did they get a (late) sequel to their favorite sci-fi movie a few years ago, but they’ll also be able to enjoy a live-action series: Blade Runner 2099!

Forty years after its theatrical release, blade runner continues to mark with a hot iron the different universes of science fiction which appeared after the work of Ridley Scott. There was clearly a before and an after. blade runnereven if the film was not immediately successful with the public.

A universe with multiple ramifications

In 2017, the world of blade runner expanded with a late sequel, blade runner 2049. The blockbuster directed by Denis Villeneuve was well received by critics, less by the general public, but here too, time may do its work. Like his model, blade runner 2049 has everything to become a cult film.

And it’s far from over! Amazon will indeed produce a series in real shots located in the same universe, but fifty years after the events of the second part. Logically called Blade Runner 2099this ten-episode series will have Ridley Scott as executive producer, who could also direct it (at 84, the British director still has some under the pedal!).

The screenwriter and producer of the show will be Silka Luisa, who has already worked as a showrunner on the series. The Shining Girls for Apple TV+. Blade Runner 2099 is not entirely a surprise: last November, Ridley Scott explained to the BBC that the project was under development, with a pilot already written as well as a bible. Enough to consider a rapid launch of production.

Blade Runner 2099 is not the first series drawn from this universe. Adult Swim launched last year Blade Runner: Black Lotus, an animated series. For Amazon, it’s an investment in gold: after Wheel of Time and The Lord of the RingsPrime Video offers itself a new leading franchise (pending Mass Effect ?).

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