"Blade Runner's third live-action entry will be a streaming miniseries on Amazon Prime Video, and Deadline reports that it is now slated for release in 2026. "The update was provided by Laura Lancaster, Head of US SVOD TV Development and Series - Co-Productions at Amazon MGM Studios, in an internal memo announcing promotions for two executives, Kara Smith and Tom Lieber," Deadline explained."
"Blade Runner 2099 will star Michelle Yeoh ( Everything Everywhere All At Once; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) and will also feature Hunter Schafer ( Euphoria, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes), Tom Burke ( Black Bag, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga), and Dimitri Abold ( Warrior Nun, also The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes), among others."
"Very little else is known about the show beyond the fact that it will take place 50 years after the 2017 film Blade Runner 2049, that it will be a live action miniseries, and that it will run for six episodes. The showrunner will be Silka Luisa, a writer best known for her work on the TV series Shining Girls. (She also wrote one episode of Paramount+'s Halo TV series.) Ridley Scott is involved as an executive producer and is rumored to direct one or more episodes."
Blade Runner 2099 is slated to premiere on Amazon Prime Video in 2026 as a six-episode live-action miniseries set 50 years after Blade Runner 2049. Ridley Scott serves as an executive producer and may direct one or more episodes. Silka Luisa is the showrunner. The cast includes Michelle Yeoh, Hunter Schafer, Tom Burke, and Dimitri Abold. The project was updated in an internal Amazon MGM Studios memo credited to Laura Lancaster. Denis Villeneuve and prior franchise stars Harrison Ford, Ryan Gosling, and Ana de Armas are not known to be involved. The series joins a wave of revived sci-fi franchises on streaming.
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