Do we really need more stories about the xenomorph? Do we need more stories about a very damp Los Angeles and its replicants? Is culture at a standstill? Are we doomed to recycle everything from the 1980s onward? On the other hand you have the continual franchise-ment of culture, revisiting and rehashing two excellent films from the early ‘80s that exist perfectly well as standalone stories. Either way, they tell stories with beginnings, middles, and ends. On one hand you have his two films, both original content, one that might have a second life on streaming on and another that feels like it will have some buzz and lead people back to the cinema.
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Look, the two new series might be good, they might be meh, but Scott’s sudden prominence at the end of 2021 feels like an encapsulation of media’s divergent paths.
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and Alien has now been written for pilot"ĭirector Ridley Scott, says the Blade Runner and Alien TV shows are in development and they are putting together the 'bible' of both projects #R4Today /4vTPGyZXtz- BBC Radio 4 Today November 22, 2021 "We've already written the pilot for Blade Runner. Times have changed, but the Los Angeles of the future sure hasn’t. And it was only because of this announcement that I even knew of the Adult Swim animated series, Blade Runner: Black Lotus, which is set in a bleak, dystopian 2032. After all, the 1982 film was set in a bleak, dystopian 2019, and the Denis Villeneuve sequel was set in a bleak, dystopian 2049. The Blade Runner announcement has sent the pop media press into a tizzy, trying to guess where and when the new series will be set. Fargo into something like a jazz riff on the Coen’s films spread across several decades, is set to be the showrunner.
And there are similar questions in the upcoming Alien series, which has been rumored since 2020. “So, we’re already presenting ‘Blade Runner’ as a TV show, the first 10 hours.” But who his co-creators are, we don’t know right now. “We written the pilot for ‘Blade Runner’ and the bible,” he says, referring to the master plan of the 10 episodes.