In response to Deadline, Amazon Studios is quick monitoring improvement on a Blade Runner TV present, tentatively titled Blade Runner: 2099, with the unique film’s director, Ridley Scott, as government producer. The undertaking additionally has the showrunner of Apple TV’s Shining Women, Silka Luisa, as lead author and co-executive producer.
The unique Blade Runner is a cult traditional and stays a wellspring of inspiration for science fiction works to at the present time. I beloved Denis Villeneuve’s 2017 sequel, Blade Runner: 2049, however it had a lackluster blockbuster efficiency and that appeared just like the final phrase on massive funds productions within the collection, at the very least till it will get one other inevitable studio revival nonetheless a few years down the road.
It seems like that subsequent try is coming far ahead of I may have anticipated. Sci-fi and fantasy streaming reveals are massive proper now, and whereas Amazon has had its personal success with The Expanse, that present is coming into its remaining season, presumably serving to clarify the corporate’s eagerness to get a Blade Runner adaptation out sooner slightly than later.
In the event you’re itching for additional adventures within the Blade Runner universe, the collection additionally has a vaunted place in PC gaming historical past with Westwood Studios’ glorious 1997 point-and-click adventure spinoff. Nightdive Studios’ remaster of the sport appears to be on hiatus as a result of disappearance of the sport’s supply code, however the unique model is available for purchase on GOG for $9.99.
