Hunter Schafer Joins ‘Blade Runner 2099’ TV Series at Amazon Alongside Michelle Yeoh
“Euphoria” and “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” star Hunter Schafer has been tapped as the co-star opposite Michelle Yeoh in Amazon’s upcoming “Blade Runner 2099” TV series.
The show is a sequel to both the original “Blade Runner” film and the followup film, “Blade Runner 2049.” The storyline is being kept under wraps and no character are available on Schafer’s character, but sources says Yeoh will play a character named Olwen, described as a replicant near the end of her life.
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Ridley Scott, the mastermind behind the original 1982 sci-fi thriller “Blade Runner,” first announced “Blade Runner 2099” was in the works in November 2021, with Amazon revealing it was in development at the platform in February 2022.
Silka Luisa serves as showrunner and executive producer on the project. Scott will executive produce along with David W. Zucker and Clayton Krueger of Scott Free Productions. Alcon Entertainment (which in 2011 secured the rights to produce “Blade Runner” prequels and sequels, beginning with the Ryan Gosling-led “Blade Runner 2049”) co-founders Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson also executive produce, as will Alcon’s president of television Ben Roberts. Tom Spezialy, Richard Sharkey, Michael Green, Cynthia Yorkin, Frank Giustra, and Isa Dick Hackett also executive produce. Jonathan van Tulleken will direct the first two episodes and executive produce. Steven Johnson is a co-executive producer.
Film United is the production company for “Blade Runner 2099” in Prague.
Schafer made her acting debut playing Jules opposite Zendaya’s Rue in HBO’s Emmy-nominated drama “Euphoria,” and most recently appeared in Lionsgate’s “The Hunger Games” prequel
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” as Tigris Snow.”
Up next, Schafer can be seen in A24’s “Mother Mary” opposite Anne Hathway and Michaela Coel, in Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Kinds of Kindness” with Emma Stone and Jesse Plemmons, and starring in NEON’s horror thriller “Cuckoo” alongside Dan Stevens.
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