‘Blade Runner 2099’ TV Series at Amazon Adds Nine to Cast

The “Blade Runner 2099” TV series at Amazon Prime Video is rounding out its cast.

Previously announced series leads Michelle Yeoh and Hunter Schafer will be joined in the sci-fi drama by: Dimitri Abold (“The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes”) and Lewis Gribben (“Somewhere Boy”), who will appear as series regulars, as well as Katelyn Rose Downey (“The Nun II”), Daniel Rigby (“Renegade Nell”), Johnny Harris (“A Gentleman In Moscow”), Amy Lennox (“Only Child”), Sheila Atim (“The Woman King”), and Matthew Needham (“House of the Dragon”) , who have been cast in recurring guest star roles.

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Exact plot and character details are being kept under wraps, though it is known the series will take place after the events of the original “Blade Runner” and the sequel, “Blade Runner 2049.” The show is currently in production in Prague, with plans to also shoot in Barcelona. Film United is handling production in Prague.

Lewis Gribben is repped by The Artists Partnership, Strange Town, and attorney Michael Auerbach. Downey is repped by Gelder at Conway van Gelder Grant. Rigby is repped by Hamilton Hodell. Lennox is repped by Conway van Gelder Grant. Needham is repped by Curtis Brown Group.

Silka Luisa serves as showrunner and executive producer. Ridley Scott will executive produce along with David W. Zucker and Clayton Krueger of Scott Free Productions. Alcon Entertainment co-founders Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson also executive produce, as will Alcon’s president of television Ben Roberts. Tom Spezialy, Richard Sharkey, Michael Green, Cynthia Yorkin, Frank Giustra, and Isa Dick Hackett also executive produce. Jonathan van Tulleken will direct the first two episodes and executive produce. Steven Johnson is a co-executive producer.

Scott first revealed “Blade Runner 2099” was in the works in November 2021, with Amazon announcing it was in development there in February 2022. It was formally greenlit in September 2022.

(Pictured, from left to right: Amy Lennox, Katelyn Rose Downey, Lewis Gribben, Johnny Harris, Matthew Needham)

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