Ridley Scott to produce new 'Blade Runner' show for Amazon Prime Video

Source: Warner Bros

Blade Runner will live on once more. But this time, it'll become a television series for Amazon Prime Video. The company reportedly tapped original Blade Runner director Ridley Scott to executive produce the series. It'll be entitled Blade Runner 2099 and take place 50 years after the events of Denis Villeneuve's 2017 film, Blade Runner 2049.

That film itself was set 30 years after Scott's original adaptation of Philip K Dick's novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Blade Runner 2099 will be co-produced by Silka Luisa, who is currently showrunning Shining Girls for Starz. Luisa will also be the lead writer for the series. Rumour has it Amazon Studios is fast-tracking the development of the series and is looking to establish a writers room to join Luisa soon. It isn't guaranteed, but Scott could also return to direct the show. We're sure to hear more about this if Amazon pushes through with the project.

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Ridley Scott signs multi-year TV deal with Apple

Prolific producer Ridley Scott and his Scott Free Productions company signed a multi-year, first-look TV deal with Apple. They will be developing new projects for Apple TV+. This partnership won't be Scott's first time working with the tech giant. He once directed the famed "1984" commercial for the company's first Macintosh computer. This new Apple deal ends his years-long overall deal with CBS TV Studios. According to The Hollywood Reporter's sources, the Apple deal is valued in the high-seven-figure range.

Scott Free has developed a lot of renowned TV shows, including CBS' The Good Wife, CBS All Access spinoff The Good Fight, Amazon's The Man in the High Castle, and AMC's The Terror. They've also done films like Top Gun, Gladiator, and The Martian.

‘Alien: Covenant’ gets a creepy first trailer

The follow-up to Ridley Scott’s 2012 film Prometheus is set to hit theaters in 2017 and so the first trailer for Alien: Covenant is out and it’s properly scary. The trailer shows what the crew of the Covenant is up against as they stumble upon a new planet. But things aren’t as they seem as someone gets infected by a deadly xenomorph and things just go extremely wrong from there. 

The big names attached to the 20^th Century Fox film include Michael Fassbender, who plays the artificially intelligent David and is the survivor of the Prometheus expedition, James Franco, Katherine Waterston, and Guy Pearce. Alien: Covenant will be hitting the big screen on May 19, 2017.

Blade Runner 2049 trailer is out

Considered by many to be the perfect science fiction movie, the original Blade Runner seemed complete, with no need for a sequel or prequel to enhance the already moody and mysterious world of replicants and replicant hunters (blade runners). We now have a sequel to the 1982 Ridley Scott helmed classic which brings back an aged Deckard (Harrison Ford) and an all new Blade Runner played by Ryan Gosling. Along with Ford, Ridley Scott is back but merely as a producer, the new movie, which is slated for October 2017, is megged by Denis Villeneuve, (who also did Prisoners, Sicario, & Arrival). Not sure how I feel about this trailer, but if the right people are behind it, I'm hoping it will at least be half-as engaging as the original cyberpunk epic.