Blade Runner 2099 Restricted Sequence Ordered at Prime Video With Ridley Scott Govt Producing

Blade Runner is getting the restricted collection remedy.

Prime Video introduced Thursday that it had picked up a live-action collection set within the universe of the long-lasting films.

Ridley Scott will return as government producer for the present, billed as a follow-up to 2017’s Blade Runner 2049.

Silka Luisa, who most just lately labored on Shining Ladies, penned the script and is connected as EP.

“The unique Blade Runner, directed by Ridley Scott, is taken into account one of many biggest and most influential science-fiction films of all time, and we’re excited to introduce Blade Runner 2099 to our international Prime Video prospects,” Amazon Studios’ head of world tv Vernon Sanders stated in an announcement.

“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 proficient Silka Luisa, Blade Runner 2099 will uphold the mind, themes, and spirit of its movie predecessors.”

Added Alcon Leisure co-CEOs Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson:

“We’re delighted to proceed our working relationship with our mates at Amazon.”

“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,” the assertion continues.

“Audiences first found Ridley Scott’s sensible imaginative and prescient for Blade Runner 40 years in the past, and since then, it has change into one of the 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’ve a really excessive bar to fulfill with this subsequent installment. Along with Silka and our companions at Amazon, and Scott Free Productions, we hope that we will dwell as much as that customary and delight audiences with the subsequent era of Blade Runner.”

Prime Video has been doubling down on well-known IP.

It just lately introduced the world of The Lord of the Rings again to life, and a Fallout TV adaptation is within the works. 

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