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Blade Runner 2099 will premiere on Prime Video in 2026, Deadline is reporting. Michelle Yeoh will star on the project, which is a limited television series follow-up to the 2017 movie sequel, Blade Runner 2049.
Laura Lancaster, Head of US SVOD TV Development and Series – Co-Productions at Amazon MGM Studios, shared the update. She revealed the news during an internal memo announcing promotions for two executives, Kara Smith and Tom Lieber.
The studio greenlit the show in September 2022. The 2023 Hollywood strikes ultimately delayed the dramas’ production by almost a year. As a result, filming ultimately moved from its initial location in Belfast to Prague last year.
Blade Runner 2099 is now in post-production. The series’ editing phase comes after Amazon previously aimed to premiere the project later this year or early next year.
Hunter Schafer, Dimitri Abold, Lewis Gribben, Katelyn Rose Downey and Daniel Rigby are also starring on the sci-fi show. Johnny Harris, Amy Lennox, Sheila Atim, Matthew Needham, Burke and Lombardi play recurring characters on the drama.
Silka Luisa serves as the showrunner and executive producer on the project. Alcon Entertainment co-founders Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson, as well as Alcon’s President of Television, Ben Roberts are also executive producing the series. Ridley Scott, David W. Zucker and Clayton Krueger from Scott Free Productions, Tom Spezialy, Richard Sharkey, Michael Green, Cynthia Yorkin, Frank Giustra and Isa Dick Hackett are also serving as executive producers on the show.
Jonathan van Tulleken directed Blade Runner 2099‘s first two episodes and also serves as an executive producer. Steven Johnson is serving as a co-executive producer on the drama.
Amazon has not yet revealed any information about the sequel series’ story. But the production is reportedly a live-action show set in the Blade Runner universe.
Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford, Ana de Armas, Sylvia Hoeks, Robin Wright, Mackenzie Davis, Dave Bautista, and Jared Leto starred in Blade Runner 2049. The neo-noir won the Oscar for Best Visual Effects in 2018.
The movie served as a sequel to 1982’s Blade Runner, which Scott helmed. Ford starred in the lead role of Rick Deckard, a blade runner who hunts down escaped replicants. The movie is loosely based on Philip K Dick’s 1967 dystopian novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?. The new limited series marks the first time the franchise has been adapted into a live-action television show.
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