The science fiction movie "Blade Runner" is going to come out of the Japanese drama ~ The Adventure Swim, who created "Rick and Morty", will shoot the Japanese animation-style drama "Blade Runner: Black Lotus", with Shinichiro Watanabe ("Star Cowboy") as the creative producer, Sola Digital Arts ("Ultraman") as the animation producer, Nobushi Arama ("Apple Nuclear War") and Kenji Kamiyama ("Ghost in the Shell"), and the strength of the production team should not be underestimated.
Blade Runner (1982) is an action science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott, set in Los Angeles in 2019, about a group of replicants with exactly the same intelligence and senses as humans, venturing to ride a spaceship back to Earth, hoping to find a way to survive before their mechanical energy is about to run out. At that time, the film was slow in pace and obscure plot, resulting in a dismal box office, but it had a profound impact on the creation of subsequent science fiction films, which can be called the enlightenment of science fiction films. In 2004, the British newspaper Guardian named Blade Runner the number one of the best science fiction films.
Blade Runner: 2022 Dark Havoc is an animated short film directed by Shinichiro Watanabe, a 15-minute short film set in 2022 that fills the gap between Blade Runner 2019 and Blade Runner 2049 for 30 years.
Blade Runner: Dawn of the Replicants 2036 is a 7-minute short film about the rise of the new BOSS Wallace and the development of a new generation of "absolutely obedient" replicants.
Blade Runner: 2048 is a 6-minute short film about a replicant named Sapper in 2048 who reveals his identity in a last resort. And he has a close relationship with the male and female protagonists of the first part.
"Blade Runner 2049" is a sci-fi action film produced by Columbia Pictures in the United States, the story is set 30 years after "Blade Runner", telling the story of the symbiosis between humans and replicants in 2049, the contradictions between the two races escalated, the new generation of Blade Runner K found the former Blade Runner who has disappeared for many years, and joined forces to stop the battle of the fate of humans and replicants again.
The Japanese animated series Blade Runner: Black Lotus, which was primarily inspired by Blade Runner 2049, is scheduled to shoot 13 episodes of half an hour each. At present, the content of the series is confidential, but according to the producers, the series is set in 2032, and there will be familiar characters in the Blade Runner universe, still the decadent future world where the replicants exist.