Blade Runner 2099 has been a five-year wait for fans – and unfortunately there's some bad news for those hoping for it to run long-term.
At San Diego Comic-Con this weekend, showrunner Silka Luisa has confirmed the upcoming Prime Video series, set to be released on 25 November, will end after the upcoming singular season.
Speaking to Collider about the decision, Luisa noted it has "always been considered a limited series" as they wanted the series to feel cinematic in scope and "the transition from film to TV is a really big jump".
"It was really important to us that we told a tory that, in a way, is like a movie in the sense that there’s a beginning, there’s a middle, and there’s an end," she said.
As a result, the series will only have an eight episode run.
"Eight episodes – I mean, eight’s my lucky number," she added. "That’s the number I would have picked, but it felt like the right amount for the story we were planning on telling."
The upcoming series stars Michelle Yeoh and Hunter Schafer as Cora and Olwen – two people on the opposite ends of society's spectrum.
In a world where replicants (androids so human-like in nature they are hard to spot) have spent years in hiding as Blade Runners (a specialist force intended to wipe out replicants now they're outlawed) tried to track them down, turning them into fugitives.
Set 50 years after the events of the last movie – the 2017, Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford-led Blade Runner 2049 – this futuristic Los Angeles has "been reborn... just not by humanity".
In fact, there's a new way things are done, with a replicant uprising set between the series and the film meaning androids are the ones now in charge.
While Olwen is a replicant Blade Runner in her last days of life, Cora is fugitive who becomes a Blade Runner when times get desperate. However, when a runaway has information that could prove the entire collapse of Los Angeles, the pair have to team up to take them down.
Speaking to Entertainment Weekly about how the old ties with the new, Luisa said: "We stayed very true to the noir principles of Blade Runner. And there’s a mystery at the heart of the show that looks both forwards and backwards in terms of mythology that fans are gonna be very excited about.”
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