You’ll be able to now upload the approaching Blade Runner 2099 TV display to the checklist of displays impacted through the Writers Strike.
In keeping with the BBC, the Prime Video series was once set to begin taking pictures at Belfast Harbour Studios in Northern Eire. The continued strike through the Writers Guild of America additionally impacts writers whose displays or movies are filming out of doors of the United States, reminiscent of 2099. And although it hasn’t even been a full month because the strike began, the sci-fi collection won’t finally end up beginning up manufacturing once more till spring 2024.
Chatting with the hole, Northern Eire Display screen (the rustic’s nationwide display screen company) stated it was once “extraordinarily dissatisfied” through manufacturing being halted. Its CEO Richard Williams added that the corporate “hope an even deal is reached quickly so workforce can get again to paintings.” Within the period in-between, NI Display screen plans to seek out one thing else to absorb 2099’s manufacturing agenda, whilst being conscious that “many freelance workforce and provide chain firms had been depending in this mission for paintings within the months forward.”
Blade Runner 2099 was once formally picked up through Top Video closing September as a restricted collection with unique Blade Runner director Ridley Scott readily available as an govt manufacturer. We all know that it’s set 50 years after 2017’s Blade Runner 2049, however main points at the display have differently been principally nonexistent. The largest piece of latest information was once again in March, with Killing Eve’s Jodie Comer reportedly in talks to celebrity.
The inside track of 2099’s manufacturing being halted comes now not lengthy after Wonder Studios made up our minds to kill manufacturing for each Thunderbolts and Wonder Man for the foreseeable long run. Numerous different movies and displays have stopped manufacturing within the month of Might on account of picketing writers, which needs to be a blow felt through the entire firms as solidarity for the writers grows and the WGA might not be the only ones picketing for higher pay and earnings from streaming services and products.
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