Blade Runner 2099 Limited Series Adds Michelle Yeoh to Cast

Summary

• Blade Runner 2099
  will star Michelle Yeoh, and will continue the
  Blade Runner
  franchise on Prime Video.
• Ridley Scott will produce
  Blade Runner 2099
  , with Silka Luisa as executive producer and showrunner. The series will uphold the intellect, themes, and spirit of the original
  Blade Runner
  films.
• Michelle Yeoh is famous for such films as
  Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
  and
  Everything Everywhere All at Once
  .

Seven years after the release of Blade Runner 2049, the franchise is headed to the small screen thanks to Prime Video, with Academy Award-winner Michelle Yeoh set to star in Blade Runner 2099. Yeoh became the first actress of Asian descent to win an Oscar, for her performance in Everything Everywhere All at Once, and since then has appeared in a plethora of movies, including The School for Good and Evil, and A Haunting in Venice, while also lending her voice to characters in Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, Minions: The Rise of Gru, and The Tiger’s Apprentice.

As per Deadline, Blade Runner 2099, which recently got back on track following the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes of 2023, will continue the franchise that began back in 1982 with Ridley Scott’s original Blade Runner film that starred Harrison Ford, and received a sequel in 2017 with Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049, which starred Ryan Gosling. Plot details remain under wraps at this time, with Yeoh’s character yet to be revealed.

At the time of the announcement of Blade Runner 2099, the Co-Head of Television at Amazon Studios, Vernon Sanders, expressed his excitement for the new limited series, calling Ridley Scott’s original film “one of the greatest and most influential science-fiction movies of all time.” He would go on to say that the new series “will uphold the intellect, themes, and spirit of its film predecessors.” Check out his full statement below.

“T
he original Blade Runner, directed by Ridley Scott, is considered one of the greatest and most influential science-fiction movies of all time
, and we’re excited to introduce Blade Runner 2099 to our global Prime Video customers. We are honored to be able to present this continuation of the Blade Runner franchise, and are confident that by teaming up with Ridley, Alcon Entertainment, Scott Free Productions, and the remarkably talented Silka Luisa, Blade Runner 2099 will uphold the intellect, themes, and spirit of its film predecessors.”

Ridley Scott Will Be Involved in Blade Runner 2099

As one of the greatest directors and producers of our time, Ridley Scott broke new ground with Blade Runner back in 1982. Based on Philip K. Dick’s novel ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?,’ the neo-noir science fiction thriller was a technological marvel for its time, pushing the boundaries of visual effects. While Scott would go on to create such classics as Thelma & Louise, and Gladiator, he returned to the franchise that made him a star, Alien, by helming Prometheus in 2012 and Alien: Covenant in 2017.

Scott will once again return to the world of Blade Runner, this time as a producer on Blade Runner 2099 with his company, Scott Free. Silka Luisa (Shining Girls, Halo) will also serve as executive producer, as well as showrunner for the series. The first two episodes will be directed by Jonathan van Tulleken, who most recently directed for the acclaimed FX series, Shōgun.

Related Blade Runner: How a Focus Group Almost Ruined a Classic If any lesson can be drawn from the messy production of Blade Runner, it should be to never talk down to your audience.

As for Michelle Yeoh, aside from Blade Runner 2099, she’ll appear next in Wicked and its sequel as Madame Morrible, as well as the Avatar franchise in its two upcoming sequels as Dr. Karina Mogue.

Everything Everywhere All at Once
is available to stream on Netflix.

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