Ridley Scott Confirms That ‘Blade Runner’ TV Show Is Happening

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Director Ridley Scott recently confirmed that a TV show based on his 1982 movie Blade Runner is in development. As reported by The Hollywood Reporter, Scott revealed that the script worth 10 hours of material has been written, suggesting that we can expect a limited series consisting of 10 episodes.

“We have already written the pilot for Blade Runner and the bible. So we’re already presenting Blade Runner as a TV show, probably the first 10 hours.”

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Scott directed a legendary sci-fi movie Blade Runner, which was released in 1982. The 1968 sci-fi novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? written by Philip K. Dick served as the primary basis for the film. Starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, and Edward James Olmos, Blade Runner unperformed critically and commercially, but later it turned into a cult classic movie, and today it’s considered one of the best sci-fi movies of all time. The movie significantly defined the sci-fi genre as such.

The sequel, Blade Runner 2049 was released in 2017, directed by Dennis Villeneuve. Harrison Ford and Edward James Olmos reprised their respective roles from the original movie, while Ryan Gosling, Ana de Armas, Sylvia Hoeks, Robin Wright, Mackenzie Davis, Carla Juri, Lennie James, Dave Bautista, and Jared Leto joined the cast. Although it was a box-office disappointment, the critics praised the movie, calling it faithful to the original.

Blade Runner: Black Lotus, an anime series based on the franchise recently premiered on November 14.

Not much is known about the Blade Runner TV show and how it’s going to fit into the franchise with Scott’s original movie and Villeneuve‘s sequel. But considering all the praise and a legend status that Blade Runner has in modern cinematography, the bar is set pretty high.

Ridley Scott’s newest film, House of Gucci, starring Lady Gaga, Adam Driver, Jared Leto, Jeremy Irons, Salma Hayek, and Al Pacino, is set to open this week.

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Lukas Abramovich is a freelance writer and photo and video editor based in Croatia. He's also a web designer and holds a Master’s degree in general Computer Science from the Faculty of Informatics based in Pula, Croatia. Since 2018, Lukas has worked on several portals writing about movies, TV shows, and video games. He's currently writing articles for two of them: Fiction Horizon and Comic Basics. He also has a YouTube channel in his native language, and the content there is mostly reviewing popular movies and TV shows. Lukas also has an Instagram page where he once used to post fan-made posters he made, which is something he would like to continue working on, as photo and video editing are also some of his passions. Lukas is a big movie lover who is okay with watching any kind of movie. His favorite movie is Michael Curtiz's Casablanca, but he's a loyal follower of Marvel and DC movies, as well as several other blockbuster franchises he's been following for years; Star Wars, Fast & Furious, Mission: Impossible, and James Cameron's Avatar are only some of them. His favorite director is Christopher Nolan, with Quentin Tarantino and Denis Villeneuve as honorable mentions. Lukas is also a big fan of four fantasy multimedia franchises; The Wizarding World, A Song of Ice and Fire, The Witcher, and The Lord of the Rings. He calls them "the four rulers of the fantasy genre." He loves to write about anything spawned from those franchises (books, games, movies...), as well as anything branded with the Marvel or DC logo. Video games and their adaptations are also something he follows faithfully since he's a big fan of story-driven single-player games like Assassin's Creed, The Last of Us, Uncharted, etc. His favorite video game ever is Red Dead Redemption 2.