Acclaimed actress Michelle Yeoh has been chosen to star in the upcoming Amazon series 'Blade Runner 2099.'
Key points:
- Yeoh was selected for a major role in the Prime Video limited series. Information about the show, including its storyline, is scarce.
- Although not confirmed, sources informed Variety that the 61-year-old actress will portray Olwen, a replicant nearing the end of her life.
The specifics:
- 'Blade Runner 2099' is expected to continue the story from the 2017 Warner Bros. film 'Blade Runner 2049'.'Blade Runner 2049' starred,” starring Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford. This new project is the most recent addition to the 'Blade Runner' series, following the 2021 Adult Swim and Crunchyroll animated series 'Blade Runner: Black Lotus.'
- Silka Luisa, the creator of the Apple TV Plus thriller 'Shining Girls' from 2022, will serve serve as the showrunner, with Ridley Scott, director of 'Blade Runner' (1982), joining as an executive producer.
- The limited series will also have Andrew Kosove, Broderick Johnson, Ben Roberts, David W. Zucker, Clayton Krueger, Tom Spezialy, Richard Sharkey, Michael Green, Cynthia Yorkin, Frank Giustra, and Isa Dick Hackett as executive producers.
- Meanwhile, Jonathan van Tulleken, who directed the first two episodes of the FX 2024 miniseries “Shogun,” will helm the initial two episodes of 'Blade Runner 2099.'
In addition to the 'Blade Runner 2099' series, Yeoh will also feature in
- Aside from Amazon’s ’s two-part musical film “ Jon M. Chu” and Paramount Plus’s “Star Trek: Discovery” spin-off “WickedStar Trek: Section 31Yeoh, who was born in Malaysia, was one of the.”
- 11 individuals to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the United States. Yeoh was the
- first Asian-identifying person to win the best actress award for her role in to win the Oscar Everything Everywhere All At Once A24’s “” at the 95thAcademy Awards Acclaimed actress Michelle Yeoh has been chosen to star in the upcoming Amazon series 'Blade Runner 2099.'
Key points: in March 2023.
