Sign Up: Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Sign up for our Email Newsletters here. The 13-episode debut season of “Blade Runner: Black Lotus” will begin its run in late 2021. The timeline falls about halfway between the end of the first ‘Blade Runner’ and the start of ‘2049.’ So we’re right in sort of that midway point where the character that, of course, Jared Leto plays in our movie, is coming into prominence and bringing his vision of what replicants can be to the world.” But of course, we have the new version of the Tyrell Corporation, which is coming along with a new version of replicant. After years of teasing some sort of follow-up, a feature film sequel was produced in 2017 called Blade Runner 2049 that saw Harrison Ford reprising his role as replicant hunter Rick Deckard. “It’s occurred at the point at which replicants have been banned…and the Tyrell Corporation is in trouble. So this has occurred post-blackout,” Kosove continued. “If you remember, from ‘2049,’ the blackout is a key story point. “And so that’s why we picked the year that we did.” “Blade Runner: Black Lotus” is set in 2032 and “there are little Easter eggs and nuggets of the of the various things occurring in the ‘Blade Runner’ universe that line up into that timeline,” Kosove said. “Our goal at Alcon, because we’re the keeper of the ‘Blade Runner’ IP, and therefore we take the canon of the franchise very seriously, because the fans, of which there are so many, have invested so much of themselves in the material,” Kosove added.
“ really seriously, interweaving the different stories and making sure the timelines, the canon, the character motivations are all seamless and have a logic within the canon.” “We have two people who work for us at Alcon whose - I wouldn’t say it’s their full-time job, it’s the majority of their job,” Kosgrove said.
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