Blade Runner 2099 (Amazon Series)

[Mighty Attack Tribble]

Ridley Scott Says 10-Hour ‘Blade Runner’ Live-Action TV Series on the Way, Pilot Already Written

“Alien” isn’t the only iconic Ridley Scott franchise getting a buzzy live-action television series. Speaking to the BBC on Monday (via Variety), Scott revealed that “Blade Runner” is getting the live-action TV treatment. Specifics of the project were not revealed, other than the following: “We [have already] written the pilot for ‘Blade Runner’ and the bible. So, we’re already presenting ‘Blade Runner’ as a TV show, the first 10 hours.” Whether or not the series takes place after the Denis Villeneuve-directed sequel “Blade Runner 2049” or is set at another point on the “Blade Runner timeline remains to be seen.

The “Blade Runner” franchise returned this month with the premiere of the animated series “Blade Runner: Black Lotus” on Adult Swim. The series is set between Ridley Scott’s original 1982 “Blade Runner” and Villeneuve’s 2017 sequel “Blade Runner 2049.” The show follows Elle (Jessica Henwick in the English-language version), a young woman who wakes up with deadly assassin skills but no memory of her past except a black lotus tattoo on her body. Elle’s mission to discover her identity fuses together elements of both Scott and Villeneuve’s films.

Scott’s “Blade Runner” series would make the franchise’s first trip to live-action television. Rumors of more “Blade Runner” content swirled in September after Alcon Entertainment co-founder and co-CEO Andrew Kosove revealed that employees at the company are tasked with keeping track of and figuring out ways to build out the “Blade Runner” universe. Alcon owns the “Blade Runner” IP. Kosove served as a producer on Villeneuve’s “Blade Runner 2049.”

“We have two people who work for us at Alcon whose — I wouldn’t say it’s their full-time job, [but] it’s the majority of their job,” Kosgrove said. “[They take it] really seriously, interweaving the different stories and making sure the timelines, the canon, the character motivations are all seamless and have a logic within the canon.”

“Our goal at Alcon, because we’re the keeper of the ‘Blade Runner’ IP, and therefore we take the canon of the franchise very seriously, because the fans, of which there are so many, have invested so much of themselves in the material,” Kosove added.

The other Scott-franchise coming to television is “Alien.” That project is set up at FX with “Legion” and “Fargo” showrunner Noah Hawley in charge.

www.indiewire.com/2021/11/ridley-scott-blade-runner-television-series-1234680841/

[Lizuka #BLM]

the fans, of which there are so many

The box office for these movies would disagree.

[jimmyjackezekiel]

After what he did to Alien. I am NOT looking forward to this.

[eJm]

I mean, there’s already a Blade Runner show on Adult Swim so it ain’t exactly news.

Oh, sorry, because it’s anime it doesn’t count I guess.

[A Platypus Rave]

Ridley will then go on a 20 minute rant about the damned kids and their music completely unprompted.

[unc40]

It better not be boring.

[Mighty Attack Tribble]

Nov 22, 2021 17:43:40 GMT -5 A Platypus Rave said:

Ridley will then go on a 20 minute rant about the damned kids and their music completely unprompted.

After listening to his insane rant about why The Last Duel bombed, that wouldn't surprise me. Old Ridley is really embracing his inner boomer.

[Mighty Attack Tribble]

Officially confirmed.

[Zone Was Wrong]

Personally excited. Both films are easily in my top 5 of all time. Love me some Blade Runner. Need to finish the anime still actually.

[G✇JI☈A]

Nov 23, 2021 1:18:46 GMT -5 Mighty Attack Tribble said:

Nov 22, 2021 17:43:40 GMT -5 A Platypus Rave said:

Ridley will then go on a 20 minute rant about the damned kids and their music completely unprompted.

After listening to his insane rant about why The Last Duel bombed, that wouldn't surprise me. Old Ridley is really embracing his inner boomer.

I remember he was angry cause young people were not going to see The Last Duel cause they did not care about history.

Which was unfair, because it was out the same time as an MCU film (Disney should take some blame for that cause both were under their umbrella).. and people do go to movies to be entertained.. and at the time people would rather have watched a movie where Jung from Kim’s Convenience fights a dragon (the trailer made it looked like that was gonna happen), then a movie which was ultimately about someone being raped.

[Mighty Attack Tribble]

Sept 15, 2022 18:16:35 GMT -5 G✇JI☈A said:

Nov 23, 2021 1:18:46 GMT -5 Mighty Attack Tribble said:

After listening to his insane rant about why The Last Duel bombed, that wouldn't surprise me. Old Ridley is really embracing his inner boomer.

I remember he was angry cause young people were not going to see The Last Duel cause they did not care about history.

Which was unfair, because it was out the same time as an MCU film (Disney should take some blame for that cause both were under their umbrella).. and people do go to movies to be entertained.. and at the time people would rather have watched a movie where Jung from Kim’s Convenience fights a dragon (the trailer made it looked like that was gonna happen), then a movie which was ultimately about someone being raped.

Exactly. It's a very good movie, but wild horses couldn't have dragged me into a theatre in the late stages of the pandemic to watch a movie about rape.

[Natural Born Farmer]

Blade Runner 2049 ended on.... kind of a significant development.

Setting it 50 years later is an interesting choice. I'm intrigued.

[Sir Woodrow]

Cue outrage about a black replicant in 3 2 1

[Mighty Attack Tribble]

Exact plot details are being kept under wraps, but sources say Yeoh will play a character named Olwen, described as a replicant near the end of her life.

[The Summer of Muskrat XVII]

Sure, I'll watch pretty much anything with Michelle Yeoh. She's delightful

Still haven't actually seen 2049. Or watched the original since like high school, should probably do that at some point before this launches

[Ultimo Gallos]

Nov 22, 2021 16:25:41 GMT -5 Lizuka #BLM said:

the fans, of which there are so many

The box office for these movies would disagree.

The first film build a huge audience thru cable and vhs viewings. Now teh sequel.....

Ok so I was a kid when Blade runner came out. Saw one trailer and talked my favorite uncle to take me. Thinking I was gonna get a space action movie with Han Solo.

Yea I hated it. Then years later I am 13 or so catch it late at night on tv and love it. Go get the novel it is somewhat based on LOVE IT.

And now Blade Runner is a film I have owned on so many formats. One of the few I track down and watch fan edits of.

Even with my love of Blade Runner and owning the sequel since it hit home video I still haven't watched it. I dont even know when I will watch it.

But Blade Runner the OG,top 5 movie of all time.

[Mighty Attack Tribble]

May 7, 2024 14:35:48 GMT -5 The Summer of Muskrat XVII said:

Still haven't actually seen 2049.

It does some interesting things, looks utterly gorgeous, and actually takes Jared Leto being a giant creep and turns it into a positive. On the downside, Bautista is underused and it moves at a glacial pace.

[Zone Was Wrong]

Blade Runner 2049 is easily my favorite movie, so a follow up to it is right up my alley. Great first cast member too. She'll kill it.