Blade Runner 2099, the hotly-anticipated new science fiction miniseries, has just added two new cast members.Furiosa’sTom BurkeandRipley’sMaurizio Lombardiwill joinMichelle YeohandHunter Schaferin the latest entry in theBlade Runnerfranchise.Deadline reportsthat the series is now filming in Prague.
Burke and Lombardi’s character details are currently being kept under wraps, as are most other character and plot details for theAmazon Prime Videoseries. What we do know is that it will be set in the year 2099, fifty years afterDenis Villeneuve’s 2017 sequelBlade Runner 2049, and eighty years afterRidley Scott’s visionary1982 original film, which was set in the then-distant future of 2019. Yeoh will play Olwen, a replicant nearing the end of her life. In addition to her and Schafer, the series will also starDimitri Abold,Lewis Gribben,Katelyn Rose Downey, andDaniel Rigby. Burke and Lombardi will recur, as will previously-announced cast membersJohnny Harris,Amy Lennox,Sheila Atim, andMatthew Needham.
Who Are Tom Burke and Maurizio Lombardi?
British actor Burke made his screen debut in 1999’sDragonheart: A New Beginning, a direct-to-video sequel of theDennis Quaidmedieval fantasy film. He went on to make a number of appearances on British television, includingState of Play,Great Expectations, andThe Musketeers. His film roles includeOnly God Forgives,The Invisible Woman, and inDavid Fincher’sMank, where he playedOrson Welles. He recently led the British TV seriesStrikeandThe Lazarus Project, and starred as Praetorian Jack in this summer’sFuriosa. He is next set to star in theSteven Soderberghspy thrillerBlack Bag, alongsideCate BlanchettandMichael Fassbender, and the Cold War dramaWinter of the Crow, oppositeLesley Manville. An Italian actor and playwright, Lombardi has appeared in a number of English-language productions. They include the TV seriesThe Young Popeand its sequelThe New Pope; the Netflix miniseriesRipley;, an adaptation ofPatricia Highsmith’sThe Talented Mr. Ripley; and Ridley Scott’s 2017 biographical crime thrillerAll the Money in the World.
Blade Runner 2099is showrun bySilka Luisa(Halo); Luisa also executive produces alongsideRidley Scott, Alcon Entertainment co-foundersAndrew KosoveandBroderick Johnson, Alcon’s President of TelevisionBen Roberts,David W. ZuckerandClayton Kruegerfrom Scott Free Productions,Tom Spezialy,Richard Sharkey,Michael Green,Cynthia Yorkin,Frank Giustra, andIsa Dick Hackett.Steven Johnsonwill co-executive produce.Jonathan van Tulleken(Shogun) will direct the first two episodes.
Blade Runner 2099is currently filming;no release date has yet been announced. Stay tuned to Collider for future updates.
Blade Runner 2049
Young Blade Runner K’s discovery of a long-buried secret leads him to track down former Blade Runner Rick Deckard, who’s been missing for thirty years.
