Blade RunnerShow Possibly Delayed a Full Year as Companies Refuse to Pay Writers

you’re able to now append the forthcoming Blade Runner 2099 TV show to the list of shows impacted by the Writers Strike .

allot to theBBC , the Prime Video serieswas set to start pullulate at Belfast Harbour Studios in Northern Ireland . The on-going strike by theWriters Guild of Americaalso affects writer whose show or picture show are shoot outside of the US , such as 2099 . And even though it has n’t even been afull monthsince the strike started , the sci - fi series may not end up start up production again until saltation 2024 .

speak to the retail store , Northern Ireland Screen ( the res publica ’s national screen agency ) say it was “ super disappointed ” by production being staunch . Its CEO Richard Williams add up that the company “ hope a fair deal is reached soon so crew can get back to work . ” In the meanwhile , NI Screen contrive to regain something else to take up 2099 ’s production agenda , while being mindful that “ many free-lance crew and supply mountain chain ship’s company were relying on this project for work in the months out front . ”

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Blade Runner 2099 was formally pick up by Prime Video last September as a special series with original Blade Runner music director Ridley Scott on deal as an executive producer . We cognise that it ’s set 50 years after 2017 ’s Blade Runner 2049 , but inside information on the show have otherwise been fundamentally nonexistent . The biggest piece of late news was back in March , withKilling Eve ’s Jodie Comerreportedly in talk to asterisk .

The news of 2099 ’s production being block number not long after Marvel Studios decided to pop production for bothThunderbolts andWonder Manfor the foreseeable future . Countless other films and shows have stopped production in the calendar month of May as a result of picket writer , which has to be a shock feel by all the troupe assolidarity for the writersgrows and the WGA may not bethe only onespicketing for better pay and profits from streaming service .

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