The show is sequel to both the original Blade Runner and follow-up film, Blade Runner 2049.
The storyline is being kept under wraps, including Schafer’s character, but Yeoh will play a character named Olwen, a replicant near the end of her life.
Ridley Scott, the director of the original 1982 sci-fi thriller Blade Runner, first announced “Blade Runner 2099” in 2021.
Silka Luisa serves as showrunner and exec 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 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 2 episodes and exec- produce.
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 recently appeared in Lionsgate’s “The Hunger Games” prequel
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes as Tigris Snow.
Schafer can be seen in A24’s “Mother Mary” opposite Anne Hathaway and Michaela Coel, in Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Kinds of Kindness” with Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons, and starring in Neon’s horror thriller “Cuckoo” alongside Dan Stevens.
