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Amazon Studios has begun developing a live-action TV series set in the Blade Runner universe, according to reporting from entertainment industry publication Deadline.

The series will be titled Blade Runner 2099, and it will follow 2017's Blade Runner 2049, which was directed by Denis Villeneuve (Arrival, Dune). The Amazon series will be executive-produced by Ridley Scott, who directed the original 1982 Blade Runner film.

Deadline claims that Scott may direct at least some episodes himself once the series moves forward. Currently, 2099 is staffing up its writer's room, so it's not far along yet. Silka Luisa (The Wilding, Strange Angel, Shining Girls) will also write and executive-produce the series. Blade Runner 2049 co-writer Michael Green is among the series' numerous producers.

Blade Runner 2099 will be a joint production between Amazon Studios, Scott's Scott Free Productions, and Alcon Entertainment, a company behind another sci-fi TV series, The Expanse.

2099 is the second Blade Runner TV project to see the light of day in recent years—there was also the Adult Swim/Crunchyroll anime series Blade Runner: Black Lotus—but it will be the first live-action series in the franchise.

The original 1982 film was based loosely on the Philip K. Dick sci-fi novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?. Amazon previously streamed a TV series titled Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams, which presented standalone adaptations of various Philip K. Dick stories.

This new series' path to the small screen has been driven chiefly by Ridley Scott himself, who began shopping it to streamers last year. It's not his first foray into cerebral sci-fi streaming TV shows, either; he is also executive producer and occasional director of HBO Max's Raised By Wolves.

There's no word of when Blade Runner 2099 will premiere, but it will likely be a bit of a wait, since production has not yet begun.
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Blade Runner 2099: Amazon, Ridley Scott begin work on live-action TV series

Ridley Scott—director of 1982's Blade Runner—might direct, too.
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Exciting and I donät think Villenue should be allowed in, except in the producer club. It's another of Ridley's projects, just like Raised By Wolves, and it might see connections to larger Ridley related world. Especially through the androids and their religious practices. But, what we saw in the Black Lotus, it might fully be loyal to the idea ... it's just it's very likely that we'll see some offworld action. Even if it's just on orbit.
 
I think so, but with the writer's and actor's strikes, I think it has been pushed back. Some sources [maybe all the same one] that nothing will happen until at least the middle of 2024.
With, maybe, no-script and no actors [because of the strikes] they didn't want to rent stages until they knew they would need them.
 
CupofJoe said:
I think so, but with the writer's and actor's strikes, I think it has been pushed back. Some sources [maybe all the same one] that nothing will happen until at least the middle of 2024.
With, maybe, no-script and no actors [because of the strikes] they didn't want to rent stages until they knew they would need them.
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Hopefully, this one makes it . :(
 
Apparently , it going to be happening.:cool:
 
I think it is odd to make the conflict between people and replicants go on for 90 years. An era with that much technology shouldn't be anywhere close to static for that long. By 2099 the replicant thing should largely be settled - in part because the genetics of people should have been fixed by then and there would be less difference between them.

Blade Runner represented an inflection point in history, not a civilization.
 
Swank said:
I think it is odd to make the conflict between people and replicants go on for 90 years. An era with that much technology shouldn't be anywhere close to static for that long. By 2099 the replicant thing should largely be settled - in part because the genetics of people should have been fixed by then and there would be less difference between them.

Blade Runner represented an inflection point in history, not a civilization.
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Blade Runner 2049 was the tipping point for that .
 
Villenueve is a good choice, I think. It's not like Scott has a perfect track record. I felt like Prometheus was fairly stupid.
 
Why do we always focus on the director? Directors can make for great visuals, but you need visionary writers to make things like this work. Any names on that?
 
Brian G Turner said:
Why do we always focus on the director? Directors can make for great visuals, but you need visionary writers to make things like this work. Any names on that?
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The original Blade Runner very much visionary as vision of the future . As possible futures go , it looked very plausible and believable .
 
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The original Blade Runner was very breaking and very much visionary as vision of the future , it very looked plausible and believable.
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It still is. There is nothing preventing that future becoming reality. The robotics alone, not talking about the Ai, has come a loooong way in just about a decade. But if we are talking about the Ai, it's obvious that we don't have a general Ai. Nevertheless, it's coming, just like the climate change and the off-world colonies.

Mr Dick never had a word for the exoplanets. They were never confirmed in his lifetime. The only thing that we don't have is the FTL, but I'm certain that's coming as well.
 
ctg said:
It still is. There is nothing preventing that future becoming reality. The robotics alone, not talking about the Ai, has come a loooong way in just about a decade. But if we are talking about the Ai, it's obvious that we don't have a general Ai. Nevertheless, it's coming, just like the climate change and the off-world colonies.

Mr Dick never had a word for the exoplanets. They were never confirmed in his lifetime. The only thing that we don't have is the FTL, but I'm certain that's coming as well.
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Yes , but Atari no longer exists.;)
 
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And me, nerdy. :cool:
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I remember my Atari 2600 console, It had some good games and not so good games. The less said about 2600 version of Pacman the better and , thank god I never got to see the ET the Extraterrestrial. which is legendary in terms of awfulness , The company took all the game Cartrages and burred them the desert. :D
 
Brian G Turner said:
Why do we always focus on the director? Directors can make for great visuals, but you need visionary writers to make things like this work. Any names on that?
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Hmm. I agree that writers are required, but Oscars are won and lost on the cutting room floor. Just look at Alien3 as an example of a movie that was utterly destroyed during the editing process.
 
paranoid marvin said:
Hmm. I agree that writers are required, but Oscars are won and lost on the cutting room floor. Just look at Alien3 as an example of a movie that was utterly destroyed during the editing process.
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Then there's Michal Mann's film The Keep. Wold have won for best picture but would've bee a better film had the stupid not meddled
The Magnificent Ambersons which should another masterpiece film by Orson wells was ruined by have its end nada elements of its story changed at the behest of the Stuios. The one could have won an Oscar.
 
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