At last, here’s the first look at Amazon MGM Studios’ live action TV series take on Blade Runner.
The company unveiled a teaser trailer (below) for the project at San Diego Comic-Con on Friday.
Blade Runner 2099 has been in the works for five years from showrunner Silka Luisa (Shining Girls) and stars Michelle Yeoh and Hunter Schafer as co-leads, along with Dimitri Abold, Matthew Needham, Daniel Rigby, Lewis Gribben and others.
Until now, the project has been keep rather mysterious under wraps.
Director Ridley Scott launched the franchise in 1982 with the acclaimed Blade Runner, which told the story of a dystopic future Los Angeles where a cop (Harrison Ford) hunted rogue androids, called Replicants. The film was based on Philip K. Dick’s 1968 novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
A Scott-produced 2017 sequel, Blade Runner 2049, was directed by Denis Villeneuve and starred Ryan Gosling and Ford.
