‘Blade Runner 2099’ Stars on the Surprising Dynamic Between Their Characters
The Prime Video series Blade Runner 2099 will explore the evolution of the world audiences first encountered in Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, released in 1982 but set in 2019. In that film, humans were still the dominant species, very much interested in keeping synthetic humans, or “replicants,” under tight control. Denis Villeneuve’s 2017 sequel Blade Runner 2049 saw the balance of power starting to shift—but only a little.
- ▪The Prime Video series Blade Runner 2099 will explore the evolution of the world audiences first encountered in Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, released in 1982 but set in 2019.
- ▪In that film, humans were still the dominant species, very much interested in keeping synthetic humans, or “replicants,” under tight control.
- ▪Denis Villeneuve’s 2017 sequel Blade Runner 2049 saw the balance of power starting to shift—but only a little.
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The Prime Video series Blade Runner 2099 will explore the evolution of the world audiences first encountered in Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, released in 1982 but set in 2019. In that film, humans were still the dominant species, very much interested in keeping synthetic humans, or “replicants,” under tight control. Denis Villeneuve’s 2017 sequel Blade Runner 2049 saw the balance of power starting to shift—but only a little. But as we’ll see in Blade Runner 2099, there’s been a complete and probably inevitable reversal: replicants are now in charge following a robot uprising.
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