{"id":23430,"date":"2024-05-07T18:56:22","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T22:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=23430"},"modified":"2024-05-20T08:38:56","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T12:38:56","slug":"michelle-yeoh-to-star-in-blade-runner-2099-for-amazon-prime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=23430","title":{"rendered":"Michelle Yeoh to Star in &#8216;Blade Runner 2099&#8217; for Amazon Prime"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"p1\">\u00a9Courtesy of Star Trek : Discovery<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000706\/\">Michelle Yeoh<\/a> will be starring in <a href=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/news\/jodie-comer-reportedly-talking-about-starring-role-in-blade-runner-2099\/\"><em><strong>Blade Runner 2099<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, an Amazon Prime Video film now in production. Though details about plot and characters have not yet been revealed, sources hint that Yeoh will be playing a replicant named Olwen. The first two episodes of the sequel will be directed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1743387\/\">Jonathan van Tulleken<\/a>, who also helmed two episodes of FX\u2019s historical drama <em><strong>Shogun<\/strong><\/em>.<br \/><br \/>Based on Philip K. Dick\u2019s novel <em>Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?<\/em>, the original <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0083658\/\"><em><strong>Blade Runner<\/strong><\/em><\/a> film debuted in 1982 under the direction of Ridley Scott, who is serving as one of the executive producers of the upcoming movie. An earlier sequel, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1856101\/\">Blade Runner 2049<\/a>, released in 2017, was directed by Denis Villeneuve and starred Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford.<br \/><br \/>Yeoh won the best-actress Oscar for <em><strong>Everything Everywhere All at Once<\/strong> <\/em>in 2023, the first Asian performer to win the award. The Malaysian-born Yeoh launched her acting career in the 1980s by appearing in Hong Kong action films in which she performed her own stunts.<\/p>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1774669342741533\" data-ad-slot=\"1211148813\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<p>She came to international prominence via such movies as <em><strong>Crazy Rich Asians<\/strong><\/em>, <em><strong>Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,<\/strong><\/em> and the James Bond film <em><strong>Tomorrow Never Dies<\/strong><\/em>. Yeoh was also seen in <em><strong>Memoirs of a Geisha<\/strong><\/em> as well as Marvel Cinematic Universe\u2019s <em><strong>Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings<\/strong><\/em>. She will soon star as Madame Morrible in Jon M. Chu\u2019s two-part film adaptation of the stage musical <em><strong>Wicked<\/strong><\/em>. <br \/><br \/>Michelle Yeoh was recently awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation\u2019s highest civilian award. In 2008, Rotten Tomatoes named her the greatest action heroine of all time, and in 2022, she appeared on <em>Time<\/em> magazine\u2019s list of the world\u2019s 100 most influential people.<br \/><br \/>A release date for <em><strong>Blade Runner 2099<\/strong> <\/em>has not yet been announced. The film has already begun shooting in Prague, after the recent writers\u2019 strike forced it to relocate there from Belfast.<br \/><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/author\/edward-moran\/\">Check out more of Edward\u2019s articles<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1774669342741533\" data-ad-slot=\"1211148813\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a9Courtesy of Star Trek : Discovery Michelle Yeoh will be starring in Blade Runner 2099, an Amazon Prime Video film now in production. Though details about plot and characters have not yet been revealed, sources hint that Yeoh will be playing a replicant named Olwen. The first two episodes of the sequel will be directed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":23450,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[1101,5557,5566,7144,2078,21928,630,141],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Michelle Yeoh to Star in &#039;Blade Runner 2099&#039; for Amazon Prime | Cinema Daily US<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Michelle Yeoh will be starring in Blade Runner 2099, an Amazon Prime Video film now in production, will be directed by Jonathan van Tulleken.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=23430\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Michelle Yeoh to Star in &#039;Blade Runner 2099&#039; 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