With 27 films to its credit, the series Raised by Wolves, two movies in theaters (and with Adam Driver!) and projects for another couple of years, Ridley Scott cannot be said to live in the past. However, the director of The Gucci house He is also very aware of the main milestones of his filmography, two of his first films: Alien and Blade Runner. Both have resulted in true franchises of numerous films, especially in the Alien saga for which Scott would direct again. Prometheus and Alien Covenant, and both are going to have their own television series. The respective pilot episodes are already written.
The director has given the news in an interview with the BBC, although in the case of the Alien series it had already been announced previously (and we already told you who would be his showrunner (Noah Hawley) and other details). The real news is the Blade Runner series, which arrives a few days after the release on Adult Swim (HBO) of the anime series. Blade Runner: The Black Lotus.
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Scott’s project, however, will be a live-action series and promises to give a lot to talk about. Keep in mind that the cyberpunk universe created by Philip K. Dick and made into a movie by the director in 1982 is a cult title that has had far fewer continuations than Alien. Just a few short films, the new anime series and the sequel by Denis Villeneuve. And for more than Blade Runner 2049 be a real movie many fans were irritated by the movie.
Ridley Scott has said that the Blade Runner series is intended as a 10-hour story that we will see throughout 10 chapters, which gives us ten episodes of one hour each. The first of them, the pilot chapter, is already finished. And the rest of the season already has the bible written, that is, the compilation of all the relevant information to take into account when writing each chapter. The same goes for the Alien series, which will result in a season of between 8 and 19 hours.
No further details of the Blade Runner project are known. Not about the cast, not about the behind-the-scenes crew, not about the plot. It can be a series inspired by the movie universe but with a parallel plot, it can continue the plot of the original film and connect it with the sequel or it can be placed after the events of Blade Runner 2049. Right now all possibilities are open.
