The Blade Runner franchise is expanding as Michelle Yeoh is set to star in a Blade Runner 2099 TV series, a sequel to Blade Runner 2049. Bladerunner starring Harrison Ford and directed by Ridley Scott was released in 1982 and grew a cult following. The story was based on a novel called Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep by Phillip K. Dick. A sequel to Blade Runner called Blade Runner 2049 was released in 2017 from Dune director Denis Villeneuve.
Here is what Deadline reported about the new show.
‘Everything Everywhere All at Once Oscar winner Michelle Yeoh has found her next major starring vehicle in Blade Runner 2099, Prime Video‘s limited series following up the 2017 movie sequel Blade Runner 2049. Details of Yeoh’s role are under wraps, as is the show’s plot. ‘ 
‘Production recently began overseas, following a delay of nearly a year due to the double strikes of 2023. While it originally had been set to shoot in Belfast, the show wound up relocating to Prague following the work stoppage.’
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‘In addition to serving as showrunner of the limited series, Silka Luisa is exec producing alongside Scott, Alcon Entertainment co-founders Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson, Alcon’s President of Television Ben Roberts, David W. Zucker and Clayton Krueger from Scott Free Productions, Tom Spezialy, Richard Sharkey, Michael Green, Cynthia Yorkin, Frank Giustra and Isa Dick Hackett. Jonathan van Tulleken (Shōgun) is directing the first two episodes and also serves as EP, with Steven Johnson as co-executive producer. Film United is the production company in Prague.’
I’d be crazy not to be interested in this one. Yet, I’m also slightly concerned. I absolutley loved both Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049. However, that also makes me a bit precious about how to follow that up. The fact Scott is involved may be a good thing? Then again, we said that for Prometheus and Alien: Covenant and they were both rubbish. If this is a great addition to those movies, brilliant. If it’s cheap looking and pointless, then it’ll just be annoying.
I also think a TV series is a good idea this time around. Frankly, neither Blade Runner movies performed wonders at the box office. Great sci-fi films, but not popcorn movies for casual audiences they were not. I honestly am not sure you could get a third Blade Runner movie greenlit unless you slashed the budget somehow.
What do you think of this news as Michelle Yeoh is set to star in a Blade Runner 2099 TV series, a sequel to Blade Runner 2049? Thoughts below as always.
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