Blade Runner TV Present Delayed as Writers Strike Continues

Now you can add the upcoming Blade Runner 2099 TV present to the record of reveals impacted by the Writers Strike.

In accordance with the BBC, the Prime Video series was set to begin taking pictures at Belfast Harbour Studios in Northern Eire. The continuing strike by the Writers Guild of America additionally impacts writers whose reveals or movies are filming exterior of the US, resembling 2099. And though it hasn’t even been a full month for the reason that strike began, the sci-fi sequence could not find yourself beginning up manufacturing once more till spring 2024.

Talking to the outlet, Northern Eire Display screen (the nation’s nationwide display company) mentioned it was “extraordinarily disillusioned” by manufacturing being halted. Its CEO Richard Williams added that the corporate “hope a good deal is reached quickly so crew can get again to work.” Within the meantime, NI Display screen plans to seek out one thing else to take up 2099’s manufacturing schedule, whereas being aware that “many freelance crew and provide chain firms had been counting on this venture for work within the months forward.”

Blade Runner 2099 was formally picked up by Prime Video final September as a restricted sequence with authentic Blade Runner director Ridley Scott available as an government producer. We all know that it’s set 50 years after 2017’s Blade Runner 2049, however particulars on the present have in any other case been principally nonexistent. The largest piece of current information was again in March, with Killing Eve’s Jodie Comer reportedly in talks to star.

The information of 2099’s manufacturing being halted comes not lengthy after Marvel Studios determined to kill manufacturing for each Thunderbolts and Wonder Man for the foreseeable future. Numerous different movies and reveals have stopped manufacturing within the month of Could on account of picketing writers, which needs to be a blow felt by all the businesses as solidarity for the writers grows and the WGA will not be the only ones picketing for higher pay and income from streaming companies.

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