Picture: Warner Bros.
Now you can add the upcoming Blade Runner 2099 TV present to the checklist of reveals impacted by the Writers Strike.
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In response to the BBC, the Prime Video collection 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, comparable to 2099. And regardless that it hasn’t even been a full month for the reason that strike began, the sci-fi collection could not find yourself beginning up manufacturing once more till spring 2024.
Chatting with the outlet, Northern Eire Display screen (the nation’s nationwide display screen company) mentioned it was “extraordinarily disenchanted” 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 search out one thing else to take up 2099’s manufacturing schedule, whereas being aware that “many freelance crew and provide chain corporations 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 collection with unique 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 mainly nonexistent. The most important 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 Surprise Man for the foreseeable future. Numerous different movies and reveals have stopped manufacturing within the month of Might 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 one ones picketing for higher pay and earnings from streaming providers.
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