Ridley Scott has joined the team working with Shining Girls founder Silka Luisa as an executive producer. Blade Runner 2099, the limited series sequel to the groundbreaking science fiction film series, has been given the go-ahead by Amazon’s Prime Video.
The Blade Runner television series is a co-production between Amazon Studios and Alcon Entertainment, the company that owns the film’s rights.
Silka Luisa (Apple TV+’s Shining Girls) will serve as showrunner, and Ridley Scott (who directed the famous 1982 picture) will serve as executive producer under his Scott Free Productions.
We’re thrilled to bring Blade Runner 2049 to Prime Video subscribers around the world, as the original Blade Runner, directed by Ridley Scott, is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential science fiction films of all time, according to Amazon Studios’ head of global television Vernon Sanders.
Together with Ridley, Alcon Entertainment, Scott Free Productions, and the astonishingly talented Silka Luisa, we are proud to present this continuation of the Blade Runner franchise, and we are confident that Blade Runner 2099 will do justice to the films that came before it in terms of intelligence, themes, and spirit.
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What do we more know about Blade Runner 2099?
In February, Amazon stated they would be making Blade Runner 2099. Insinuating that it will take place 50 years after Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049 (2017), the film’s sequel, the plot is being kept under wraps for the time being.
The anime series Blade Runner: Black Lotus premiered on Adult Swim in November 2021, but this new live-action series will be the first television adaptation of the Blade Runner universe.
As always, it’s a pleasure to keep in touch with our Amazon colleagues. Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson, co-CEOs and co-founders of Alcon, said in a statement that they were “beyond pleased” to see the Blade Runner canon expanded into a new dimension with the intriguing plot that Silka had crafted.
Forty years ago, moviegoers were introduced to Ridley Scott’s visionary work on Blade Runner, and since then, it has gone on to become a landmark in the science fiction genre.
Blade Runner 2049, the sequel directed by Denis Villeneuve, went on to get some of the highest critical acclaims of any film in its genre. Thus, we are well aware that expectations for this sequel are extremely high.
We hope that, with the help of Silka and our partners at Amazon and Scott Free Productions, we can meet that challenge and surprise and delight fans of the original Blade Runner with the sequel.
The Shining Girls, starring Elisabeth Moss, was adapted by Luisa and she also served as the showrunner for Apple TV+. The original novel was written by Lauren Beukes. Paramount+’s Halo and Strange Angel are two more of her works.
With the help of Blade Runner 2049 screenwriter Michael Green (who will serve as a non-writing EP), Alcon’s Kosove, Johnson, and head of television Ben Roberts, Scott Free’s David W. Zucker, and Clayton Krueger, Tom Spezialy (The Leftovers) writer, and Cynthia Yorkin, Frank Giustra, and Isa Dick Hackett, Luisa and Scott will executive produce Blade Runner 2099.
