Amazon Orders BLADE RUNNER 2099 Sequel Series
If you’re still riding the fandom of all things Blade Runner in the last five years since Denis Villeneuve made landfall with his Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford starrer, then you’ll be pleased to know that a sequel series at Amazon has been officially greenlit, according to trades on Thursday. As Variety’s Joe Otterson notes, Silka Luisa will serve as series showrunner for the new series, Blade Runner 2099, and will executive produce alongside Scott Free Productions’ Ridley Scott with a story set fifty years after the Warner Bros. Pictures sequel. The team also includes Blade Runner 2049 co-writer Michael Green exec producing with Alcon Entertainment’s Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson, Alcon’s head of TV Ben Roberts, David W. Zucker and Clayton Krueger of Scott Free, Cynthia Yorkin, Frank Giustra, and Isa Dick Hackett, with Tom Spezialy joining the writers room and exec producing. “The original ‘Blade Runner,’ directed by […]