Showrunner Confirms Harrison Ford Will Not Appear in ‘Blade Runner 2099’
Showrunner Silka Luisa has confirmed that Harrison Ford will not appear in the upcoming Prime Video series Blade Runner 2099. The production team intentionally separated the new show from the previous films regarding characters to establish its own identity. The series is designed to be a complete story within its first season and is set to premiere on November 25.
- ▪Silka Luisa stated that Harrison Ford is not in the show and that the production wanted to separate itself from the previous films in terms of characters.
- ▪Ridley Scott is involved in the series, which Luisa described as an important piece for maintaining the visual authorship of the Blade Runner franchise.
- ▪The show stars Hunter Schafer and Michelle Yeoh and is scheduled to premiere on Prime Video on November 25.
- ▪Although the series could continue after the first season, it was originally sold as a limited series intended to stand on its own as a complete story.
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We had a feeling Harrison Ford wasn’t going to be part of Prime Video’s Blade Runner 2099 series. Though Rick Deckard, his “replicant-or-human?” character from Ridley Scott’s 1982 classic, did play a major role in Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049, and Ford clearly has no problem playing aging versions of his classic heroes (see also: Indiana Jones, Han Solo), you can imagine he was satisfied with where Deckard’s story ended. But there was always a chance Deckard could pop back up in Blade Runner 2099. Last we saw, Deckard was alive and reuniting with his daughter, and Ford is still constantly working at 84 years old. However, Blade Runner 2099 creator and showrunner, Silka Luisa, has outright confirmed that won’t happen. In an interview with Polygon, Luisa set the record straight.
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