Prime Video seriesBlade Runner 2099was announcedin 2022,delayed in 2023as part of the Hollywood strikes , and cast Hunter Schaefer and Michelle Yeoh as co - leadsin 2024 . It ’s been a long road , in other language . However , another casting member , Furiosa‘s Tom Burke , talked about it in a late interview — offer some tantalizing speck of what devotee can expect .
Until this item , all we ’ve known is the place setting ( obviously , it takes position in 2099 and is a subsequence to bothBlade RunnerandBlade Runner 2049 ) , and that Yeoh is meet a replicant nearing the destruction of her days . verbalise toVariety , Burke could n’t disclose anything about the plot , but he did say2099is “ much nigher to the aesthetic of the first moving-picture show than the 2nd movie , ” and referenced “ that somewhat kind of Baroque , eclectic mix of cultures and time period . ”
He also , enigmatically , call the show “ out there ” and say he had “ a moment of just letting go ” to squeeze what that meant . Thematically , the series sounds like it will go on to follow what the Ridley Scott and Denis Villeneuve movies , as well as Philip K. Dick ’s source - stuff novel , Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ? , have also explore : “ what makes somebody human and what make somebody not human . Or when does somebody cross some threshold … Can we really have a full sense of humanity without being very cognizant of our own dual side ? We all have the mental ability for bully iniquity as well as keen goodness . I conjecture every musical style does that to some extent , but I do feel that the morals , that whole kind of thing is handled so well in theBlade Runnerworld , to me . It ’s got subtleties and shade to it that I do n’t think necessarily all sci - fi always has . ”
Harrison Ford in Blade Runner (which came out in 1982, but is set in 2019).© Warner Bros.
Along with Schaefer , Yeoh , and Burke , Blade Runner 2099‘s cast include Maurizio Lombardi , Dimitri Abold , Lewis Gribben , Katelyn Rose Downey , Daniel Rigby , Johnny Harris , Amy Lennox , Sheila Atim , and Matthew Needham . Prime Video has yet to disclose a spillage date .
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