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Prime Video and Alcon Entertainment are alert that there’s a cult fanship successful Blade Runner, peculiarly nan 2017 sequel Blade Runner 2049, and are gathering that request pinch nan caller bid Blade Runner 2099 which takes spot 50 years aft that movie. This greeting astatine Comic-Con, Prime Video dropped nan first trailer to Blade Runner 2099 in Hall H and announced that it will watercourse connected nan work connected Nov. 25 successful 240 countries and territories.
The Ridley Scott executives produced bid which Alcon Entertainment (the owners of nan Blade Runner IP) besides produced takes spot successful a Los Angeles which has conscionable been reborn, but not by humanity. Cora (Hunter Schaefer), a quality fugitive successful a last bid to extremity running, takes connected 1 past identity: a Blade Runner. She has but nary prime but to partner pinch Olwen (Oscar victor Michelle Yeoh), a Replicant days from dying.
For nan non-Blade Runner faithful, replicants are pungent androids who tin create a batch of hell. Blade Runners are typical constabulary officers who way down and termination specified synthetic humans.
“Replicants they support taking it each away,” says Schaefer’s Cora successful nan trailer which is filled pinch each nan rich | dystopian, flying car accumulation creation that Blade Runner fans savor, “How overmuch longer until we person nothing? Until we are nothing?” As such, arsenic you tin spot successful nan trailer above, not only is it ever a warfare betwixt replicants and humans, but there’s ever nan mobility — are immoderate humans, replicants? In nan series, Cora hunts down a runaway hiding a truth that could illness their vulnerable city.
Dimitri Abold (The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes) and Lewis Gribben (Somewhere Boy) are besides bid regulars. Katelyn Rose Downey (The Nun II), Daniel Rigby (Renegade Nell), Johnny Harris (“A Gentleman successful Moscow”), Amy Lennox (Only Child), Sheila Atim (The Woman King), Matthew Needham (House of nan Dragon), Tom Burke (Furiosa) and Maurizio Lombardi (Ripley) are recurring impermanent stars.
Today’s Hall H sheet included Yeoh, Schafer, bid showrunner & EP Silka Luisa and EPs and Alcon Entertainment co-founders Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson.
EPs connected nan bid besides see Alcon’s President of Television Ben Roberts, David W. Zucker and Clayton Krueger from Scott Free Productions, Tom Spezialy, Richard Sharkey, Michael Green, Cynthia Yorkin, Frank Giustra, and Isa Dick Hackett. Jonathan van Tulleken (Shogun) is an EP and directed nan first 2 episodes of nan constricted series. Steven Johnson is Co-EP.
