Michelle Yeoh’s Blade Runner Series Gets Exciting Filming Update

The next installment in the Blade Runner franchise is almost ready. Blade Runner 2099 has just received a massive production update.

Per DiscussingFilm, Blade Runner 2099 has wrapped filming. Production on the limited sci-fi series began in Prague in May 2024, with filming kicking off the following month. Rob Hardy and Ula Pontikos served as cinematographers. This production update comes roughly 18 months after the Prime Video series was originally set to begin filming. However, Prime Video froze production on Blade Runner 2099 until May 2024 due to the then-ongoing writers’ strike. This delay resulted in the production leaving Northern Ireland’s Belfast Harbour Studios once the strike had concluded for Prague, Czech Republic.

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Blade Runner 2099 was first reported to be in development in February 2022, with Amazon officially announcing the project the following September. Ridley Scott, who directed the original Blade Runner, is serving as an executive producer on the project, along with Silka Luisa, who is attached as showrunner. Jonathan van Tulleken (Shōgun) is directing the first two episodes of Blade Runner 2099. Michelle Yeoh headlines the series as Olwen, a Replicant facing the end of her life, with Hunter Schafer, Tom Burke, Maurizio Lombardi, Daniel Rigby, and Lewis Gribben, among others, co-starring.

Not Much Has Been Shared About Blade Runner 2099

Plot details remain undisclosed at this time, although based on the title alone, the series is set to begin 50 years after the events of the previous film, 2017’s Blade Runner 2049. It marks the latest Blade Runner project from Alcon, which acquired the film, television, and ancillary franchise rights back in 2011. The original 1982 Blade Runner film, an adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, starred Harrison Ford as former LAPD officer Rick Deckard, who is tasked with tracking down bioengineered human-like beings called replicants in dystopian Los Angeles in the year 2019.

Alcon’s 2017 sequel was directed by Denis Villeneuve and starred Ryan Gosling as a replicant blade runner, who uncovers a secret that threatens to destabilize society. Ford also appeared, reprising his role from the original, with Ana de Armas, Dave Bautista, and Jared Leto rounding out the ensemble cast. Although not a major commercial success, Blade Runner 2049 was critically acclaimed and was nominated for five awards at the 90th Oscars, winning two.

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Blade Runner 2099 isn’t the only sci-fi project that fans will see Yeoh in over the next few years. In late January 2025, Paramount+ will debut Star Trek: Section 31, a Discovery spinoff movie focusing on the titular secret division of Starfleet. Yeoh is reprising her role as Emperor Philippa Georgiou from Star Trek: Discovery in Section 31, marking her return to the sci-fi franchise for the first time since 2020. Yeoh also has a role in James Cameron’s untitled Avatar 4 and Avatar 5.

Blade Runner 2099 does not yet have a premiere date.

Source: DiscussingFilm

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Takes place fifty years after the events of “Blade Runner 2049”.

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1

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Prime Video

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