{"id":934083,"date":"2026-10-19T19:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T19:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/934083\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T19:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T19:20:10","slug":"blade-runner-2099-turns-the-original-films-world-on-its-head-were-doing-sunshine-noir-tv-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/934083\/","title":{"rendered":"Blade Runner 2099 Turns The Original Film\u2019s World On Its Head: \u2018We\u2019re Doing Sunshine Noir\u2019 | TV Series"},"content":{"rendered":"

The world painted in Ridley Scott\u2019s original classic Blade Runner<\/a> is impossible to forget \u2013 dank and rain-drenched, vast and awe-inspiring, futuristic but recognisable. And it served for the backdrop to an existential odyssey for Harrison Ford\u2019s Rick Deckard, a \u2018Blade Runner\u2019 who\u2019s assigned to hunt down a rogue group of \u2018replicants\u2019, artificial humans who are running loose in the film\u2019s then-future 2019 Los Angeles. Then, in 2017 we got an evolution of the world in Denis Villeneuve\u2019s Blade Runner 2049<\/a>. And now, in Prime Video\u2019s limited series Blade Runner 2099<\/a> \u2013 set, you guessed it, 80 years after the original \u2013 the status quo of the world has entirely changed.<\/p>\n

The new show, set in the continuity of both Scott and Villeneuve\u2019s films, follows the timeline to a moment where the original premise is flipped. The replicants have taken over. Michelle Yeoh\u2019s Blade Runner Olwen is a replicant, whose job it is to hunt down rogue humans. And LA is warming back up. \u201cThe idea here is that we\u2019re doing sunshine noir,\u201d showrunner Silka Luisa tells Empire. \u201cThe show is really about a city coming back to life, a rebirth. So it\u2019s hot and sticky and chaotic.\u201d Her pitch for the show was all about this inversion of the first film: \u201cEveryone, globally, has been very aware of this palpable fear of the end of our species. Climate change, pandemics. A sense of our own mortality. Blade Runner is about imagining even beyond that. What does the world look like when it\u2019s no longer ours?\u201d<\/p>\n

Yeoh relished playing a replicant, despite Olwen facing the end of her lifespan. \u201cThey have a much longer lifespan,\u201d she explains. \u201cStronger, faster, they definitely have improvements. That\u2019s why they won the war. They learned how to adapt, how to move forward.\u201d She finds herself in the orbit of Hunter Schafer\u2019s Cora \u2013 a human who\u2019s disguised herself as a replicant to infiltrate the LAPD. \u201cCora is very raw,\u201d Schafer tells Empire. Expect a new identity-probing double act to sit alongside Blade Runner\u2019s Deckard and Rachael, and 2049\u2019s K and Joi. \u201cI think there\u2019s a lot of beauty in even the small moments of humanity,\u201d says Schafer of the pairing. \u201cDespite Olwen being a replicant.\u201d Unicorn origami, anyone?<\/p>\n

\"Empire<\/p>\n

Read Empire\u2019s full Blade Runner 2099 feature in the Dune: Part Three issue<\/a> \u2013 on sale Thursday October 22. Pre-order a copy online here<\/a>. Blade Runner 2099 comes to Prime Video from November 25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The world painted in Ridley Scott\u2019s original classic Blade Runner is impossible to forget \u2013 dank and rain-drenched,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":934084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,134,344],"class_list":["post-934083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=934083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/934084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}