Blade Runner is a science fiction film franchise that was first released in 1982. Director Ridley Scott worked on the film, and the film’s storyline is an adaptation of the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick. Thirty years later, the film has a sequel titled Blade Runner 2049 by director Denis Villeneuve. Harrison Ford is reprising his role as Rick Deckard, and Ryan Gosling is playing a new character named Joe alias K.
The current Blade Runner franchise has grown by showing an animated series entitled Blade Runner: Black Lotus. The animated series has been releasing on the HBO Max streaming service since 2021. Meanwhile, Ridley Scott is seriously rumored to be returning to continue the Blade Runner 2049 sequel project which had previously been stopped. Scott plans to produce the third Blade Runner sequel in the form of a live-action series.
According to the latest news from Deadline, Amazon Prime Video is now moving forward to seriously make a third Blade Runner sequel. The sequel will be titled Blade Runner 2099, and Scott will serve as executive producer on the series project. However, Blade Runner 2049 director, Denis Villeneuve, will likely not be involved in the making process.
The project would later become the first live action series in the Blade Runner franchise. No details of the story have been revealed so far. However, as the title suggests, Blade Runner 2099, indirectly the series will be set 50 years after the second film, which is in 2049. In addition, there is no news regarding the release date, and the series project seems to be in the early stages. start of production.
The news of the Blade Runner 2099 series project will certainly attract fans’ attention. However, we also don’t know for sure whether the storyline will be directly connected to the Blade Runner 2049 film. In addition, Ryan Gosling has not confirmed whether he will return to play K or not in this series later.
