You can now add the upcoming Blade Runner 2099 TV present to the checklist of exhibits impacted by the Writers Strike.
According to the BBC, the Prime Video sequence was set to start out capturing at Belfast Harbour Studios in Northern Ireland. The ongoing strike by the Writers Guild of America additionally impacts writers whose exhibits or movies are filming exterior of the US, such as 2099. And despite the fact that 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.
Speaking to the outlet, Northern Ireland Screen (the nation’s nationwide display company) stated it was “extremely disappointed” by manufacturing being halted. Its CEO Richard Williams added that the corporate “hope a fair deal is reached soon so crew can get back to work.” In the meantime, NI Screen plans to seek out one thing else to take up 2099’s manufacturing schedule, whereas being conscious that “many freelance crew and supply chain companies were relying on this project for work in the months ahead.”
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 know that it’s set 50 years after 2017’s Blade Runner 2049, however particulars on the present have in any other case been mainly nonexistent. The greatest piece of latest 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. Countless different movies and exhibits have stopped manufacturing within the month of May as a results 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 one ones picketing for higher pay and earnings from streaming companies.
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