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News Blade Runner series in the works at Amazon

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https://deadline.com/2022/02/blade-runner-2099-sequel-series-ridley-scott-amazon-1234931521

Ridley Scott, who directed the original 1982 Blade Runner movie, is executive producing the series, Blade Runner 2099, a follow-up to the feature film sequel Blade Runner 2049, which was released in 2017 and directed by Denis Villeneuve.

Silka Luisa, showrunner of Apple TV+’s upcoming Elisabeth Moss-fronted drama series Shining Girls, is writing and exec producing Blade Runner 2099, which comes from Alcon Entertainment in association with Scott Free Productions and Amazon Studios.
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Amazon is really going all out on these science fiction and fantasy IPs.

After 40 years I still haven’t gotten around to watching the movie which I really should do.
 
You mean another Blade Series is in the works. One just finished its first (and probably only) season. :p

That said, I am curious to see what they come up with this potential show.
 
I hope it’s better than Black Lotus. I desperately, intensely wanted to love it, but it just wasn’t very good.

I liked 2049 a lot, but I miss the aesthetic from Ridley Scott’s original.
 
I actually preferred 2049 by a large margin. The first BR, any version of it, never clicked for me. But I thought 2049 was amazing. Interested in this show but wary of it. Could be a cash grab, but I also thought the same of the 12 Monkeys tv show when it was announced and it ended up being fantastic.
 
I'm a little surprised they're jumping so far ahead, I would have expected our next Blade Runner to stick at least a little closer to 2049.
 
Never got the whole BSG is just Blade Runner thing. Why, because it has Edward James Olmos and human-looking-robots-but-not-really robots?
 
Philip K. Dick had two main themes: am I actually human? Is this actually reality? So you can see some of his DNA in Galactica. But they needlessly overcomplicated everything.

Total Recall 2070 is, imho, worth seeing, despite a somewhat cringey start that combines some blatant ripping off of Blade Runner and some cheesy, cable channel-required sexytime (depending whether you saw it on Showtime in the US or broadcast TV in Canada; I don't think that was in the broadcast version). After that the show pretty quickly dumps the sexploitation and starts building its own world, in which Rekall is up to a number of things that a police detective and his new android cop partner investigate. The show's producer was open about wishing he could have had the rights to do a Blade Runner series, but given that he had rights to another Philip K. Dick story, he figured the more PKD elements, the better. By the time the first season ended I was really hoping it would get renewed, but it didn't. The lead actor isn't great but there are some good people in the rest of the cast.

You'd have a hard time finding the whole series on DVD because as far as I know it was only released in Canada. But I think the whole show's on Youtube. If watching Machine Dreams, the pilot movie, doesn't completely sap your will to live, try a few more. There are arcs, especially later in the season, so don't just pick random episodes to try.
 
Sketcher said:
Never got the whole BSG is just Blade Runner thing. Why, because it has Edward James Olmos and human-looking-robots-but-not-really robots?
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And Robots who don't know they are robots. Robots who are as human as humans and the line between them. Questions such as "Is there really a difference what we or they are if we can love them?".
Also the fact that some of the guns on nBSG are based on Blade Runners and Cylons are also called "skin jobs"

Ridley Scott also discussed the idea that Blade Runner and Alien are in the same universe.
 
Saul said:
And Robots who don't know they are robots. Robots who are as human as humans and the line between them. Questions such as "Is there really a difference what we or they are if we can love them?".
Also the fact that some of the guns on nBSG are based on Blade Runners and Cylons are also called "skin jobs"

Ridley Scott also discussed the idea that Blade Runner and Alien are in the same universe.
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Its clear from Prometheus and Covenant that Scott is way more interested in androids than he is in xenomorphs.

As someone who adores both BR and 2049 I really hope this turns out to be good!
 
Yes yes, Ridly Scott likes to write about androids.. Prometheus, Covenant, now Raised by Wolves, and now again.. Blade runner.. and a good possibility of the new Alien tv show about androids.. honestly.. enough with the androids!!
 
Ridley Scott didn't actually write any of those. He also didn't create the basic stories for Blade Runner (novel by Philip K. Dick, screenplay by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples), Alien (Ronald Shusett and Dan O'Bannon), or Raised by Wolves (Aaron Guzikowski).
 
Steve Roby said:
Ridley Scott didn't actually write any of those. He also didn't create the basic stories for Blade Runner (novel by Philip K. Dick, screenplay by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples), Alien (Ronald Shusett and Dan O'Bannon), or Raised by Wolves (Aaron Guzikowski).
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True. He does like to milk them for all they're worth though.
I don't have much interest in a Blade Runner 2099 series. The story for me was about more about Deckard and they concluded that fairly well in 2049. An Alien series doesn't excite me either. I'd rather they wrap up the mess they started in Prometheus and try to at least have a successful crash landing.
 
Saul said:
I don't have much interest in a Blade Runner 2099 series. The story for me was about more about Deckard and they concluded that fairly well in 2049.
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The Blade Runner 2019, 2029, and Origins comics have done quite well telling stories in the BRverse without Deckard. Black Lotus doesn't involve him, either, though I think the comics have done a better job exploring that world and introducing interesting characters. If 2099 follows 2049's lead and doesn't come stomping out yelling Deck's a rep! I'll be fine with it.

An Alien series doesn't excite me either. I'd rather they wrap up the mess they started in Prometheus and try to at least have a successful crash landing.
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There just don't seem to be many Alien stories to tell. I've read a few of the recent Alien novels and they're either more or less Alien recycled (characters who aren't badasses get killed and it's all the corporation's fault) or Aliens recycled (characters who are badasses get killed and it's all the corporation's fault). Problem is, if you have Alien(s) in the title, people expect xenomorphs, but there's not much you can do with them. So it wasn't a bad idea to try changing the branding to Prometheus and looking at another part of that universe, except that it ended up recycling Alien again.
 
Speaking of Alien, Amazon did an audio dramatization of an earlier Alien 3 script starring Michael Being and Lance Henriksen. It's pretty short, but interesting to hear an alternative route the franchise might have taken.
 
Is that the William Gibson script? A new novelization of it by Pat Cadigan came out a few months ago. Haven't read it yet but I'm tempted, as much because of Gibson and Cadigan as anything else.
 
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