Los Angeles, Feb 13 : Reportedly Amazon is now finally in the process of making a live action series of the acclaimed Blade Runner movie franchise. Titled ‘Blade Runner 2099’, the Amazon Studios project will be a follow-up to Denis Villeneuve’s 2017 feature film ‘Blade Runner 2049’. Set 50 years after the 2017 film’s events, director Ridley Scott will executive produce the series, along with Shining Girls showrunner Silka Luisa. The project would mark the first live action serialized adaptation of Blade Runner and is currently in priority development in Amazon. Adapted from the Philip K. Dick novel ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?’ (1968), the original Blade Runner film, which starred Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, and Edward James Olmos, is set in 2019 Los Angeles and is centered around synthetic humans called “replicants” who were created to work on space colonies and what happens when a fugitive group of those replicants escape back to Earth. The 2017 sequel is set 30 years after the original and stars Ryan Gosling alongside Ana de Armas, Jared Leto and Dave Bautista with Ford and Olmos reprising their roles. While the upcoming Amazon show is the only live action series, there also exists an anime series called ‘Blade Runner: Black Lotus’, created by Adult Swim which is set in 2032 and bridges the gap between Ridley’s original movie and Villeneuve’s sequel. The show is the latest in a series of grand scale productions from the streamer, in addition to epic fantasy and sci-fi dramas like ‘The Expanse’, ‘The Wheel of Time’, and the upcoming ‘Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’. (UNI)