Tom Burke says that the upcoming Blade Runner 2099 television show will be more like Ridley Scott’s movie than Denis Villeneuve’s film.
Blade Runner 2099 is a forthcoming Amazon Prime Video television series created by Silka Luisa. Production on the show wrapped in December 2024, though a premiere date has not yet been announced.
The cast of Blade Runner 2099 includes Burke, Michelle Yeoh, Hunter Schafer, and more.
What did Tom Burke say about Blade Runner 2099?
Speaking with Variety, Burke said that Blade Runner 2099 is “much closer to the aesthetic of” Scott’s movie, which was released in 1982, when compared to Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049, which was released in 2017 and stars Ryan Gosling. Burke said the show has a return to “that somewhat kind of Baroque, eclectic mix of cultures and time periods.”
He further said of the show, “It’s a lot to do with that thing quite intrinsic to the source material in the movie, which is actually what makes somebody human and what makes somebody not human. Or when does somebody cross some threshold?
“…Can we really have a full sense of humanity without being very aware of our own dual sides? We all have the capacity for great evil as well as great good. I suppose every genre does that to some extent, but I do feel that the morality, that whole kind of thing is handled so well in the Blade Runner world, to me. It’s got subtleties and nuances to it that I don’t think necessarily all sci-fi always has.”
Blade Runner 2099 is executive produced by Luisa, Scott, Andrew Kosove, Broderick Johnson, Ben Roberts, David W. Zucker, Clayton Krueger, Tom Spezialy, Richard Sharkey, Michael Green, Cynthia Yorkin, Frank Giustra, and Isa Dick Hackett. The first two episodes of the series are directed by Jonathan van Tulleken.
