Between The Wheel of Time and The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, Amazon has made an enormous wager on fantasy. Now, Prime Video is inserting a big wager on science fiction as properly. Via The Hollywood Reporter, Prime Video has formally ordered Blade Runner 2099, a sequel sequence to the franchise launched 40 years in the past by director Ridley Scott.

Scott helmed the unique Blade Runner in 1982, which was loosely based mostly on Philip Ok. Dick’s 1968 sci-fi novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?. Harrison Ford starred as Rick Deckard, a “Blade Runner” who was employed to trace down six renegade Replicants, human-like androids who displayed way more humanity than Deckard himself. Ford returned to the function in 2017 for director Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049, which targeted on Ryan Gosling’s replicant Blade Runner, Ok.

As the title signifies, Blade Runner 2099 will happen 50 years after the occasions of Blade Runner 2049. Given Deckard’s age and the destiny of Ok throughout the movie, neither appear more likely to return for the sequel sequence. Further story particulars are at the moment unknown, however Scott will govt produce the present by his studio, Scott Free Productions, in affiliation with Alcon Entertainment.

Blade Runner 2049 author Michael Green will govt produce the sequence alongside Scott, however Green won’t have a writing function on the present. Instead, Shining Girls showrunner Silka Luisa could have the identical function on Blade Runner 2099. Her earlier credit embrace the Paramount+ sequence Halo and Strange Angel.

For now, Blade Runner 2099 doesn’t have a launch window on Prime Video. Given the lengthy lead time wanted for a mission like this, it could not debut till 2024 or 2025.

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