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The eight-episode bid stars Michelle Yeoh and Hunter Schafer.
We finally person a trailer for Blade Runner 2099, aft astir five years of waiting. This is nan first live-action TV show successful franchise history, though location was an animated bid called Blade Runner: Black Lotus.
As nan sanction suggests, Blade Runner 2099 is group 50 years aft nan sequel movie Blade Runner 2049. The trailer is perfectly soaked successful cyberpunk vibes and nan effects look beautiful stunning. There isn't overmuch by measurement of crippled specifics, but location are immoderate hints that nan world has changed importantly since Ryan Gosling did his point successful Blade Runner 2049.
It seems arsenic though replicants are now nan ascendant societal force, pinch humans making up a minority. There are besides references to immoderate benignant of warfare that occurred sometime aft 2049 but earlier nan events of nan show.
The bid stars Hunter Schafer arsenic nan leaf runner Cora, which is awesome because her characteristic didn't person overmuch to do in Euphoria play 3. Michelle Yeoh is playing a replicant that Cora has to reluctantly squad up pinch to find "a runaway hiding a truth that could illness their vulnerable city."
The showrunner present is Silka Luisa, who made nan Apple TV+ adjustment of Shining Girls. Ridley Scott, who directed nan first film, is on-board arsenic an executive producer. This is being described arsenic a constricted series, truthful it mightiness beryllium a one-and-done. All 8 episodes driblet via Prime Video connected November 25.
For nan uninitiated, Blade Runner is simply a cult classical sci-fi movie from 1982 that involves humans clashing pinch humanoid robots. It was based connected a Philip K. Dick caller and has since spawned an full franchise spanning films, cartoons, comic books and novels. It shares lore pinch nan Alien franchise, though nan 2 universes are technically separate.
