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After teasing the bid with immoderate first-look images yesterday, Amazon is yet decently unveiling its Blade Runner streaming series. Called Blade Runner 2099, the show hits Prime Video connected November 25th pinch each 8 episodes dropping astatine once. We besides sewage the first trailer for the series, which is afloat of Blade Runner staples: a bleak futuristic LA, melodramatic narration, and immoderate really bully coats.
The show is helmed by Silka Luisa, antecedently showrunner connected Apple TV’s adjustment of Shining Girls, while original Blade Runner head Ridley Scott is signed connected arsenic an executive producer. 2099 stars Michelle Yeoh and Hunter Schafer and, arsenic the sanction implies, takes spot a fewer decades aft Denis Villeneuve’s movie Blade Runner 2049. Here’s the charismatic premise:
Fifty years aft the events of Blade Runner 2049, Los Angeles has been reborn, conscionable not by humanity. Cora, a fugitive successful a last bid to extremity running, takes connected 1 past identity: a Blade Runner. Forced to partner pinch Olwen, a Replicant days from dying, she hunts down a runaway hiding a truth that could illness their vulnerable city.
1/2Image: Amazon MGM Studios
It’s been a agelong clip coming for Blade Runner 2099, arsenic Amazon first revealed it was moving connected the bid backmost successful 2022. But it’s coming astatine what could beryllium a bully clip for cyberpunk television, arsenic Apple is besides moving up an adjustment of William Gibson’s Neuromancer.
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