Picture: Warner Bros.
Now you can add the upcoming Blade Runner 2099 TV present to the record of reveals impacted by the Writers Strike.
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In keeping with the BBC, the Prime Video sequence was set to begin capturing at Belfast Harbour Studios in Northern Eire. The continued strike by the Writers Guild of America additionally impacts writers whose reveals or movies are filming outdoors of the US, similar to 2099. And though it hasn’t even been a full month for the reason that strike began, the sci-fi sequence might 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) stated it was “extraordinarily upset” 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 conscious that “many freelance crew and provide chain firms have been counting on this challenge 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 readily available as an govt 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 Marvel Man for the foreseeable future. Numerous different movies and reveals have stopped manufacturing within the month of Could because of picketing writers, which needs to be a blow felt by all the businesses as solidarity for the writers grows and the WGA might not be the one ones picketing for higher pay and earnings from streaming providers.
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