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Blade Runner TV show Ridley Scott story bible 10 hours live-action

Blade Runner TV Show Is in the Works, Says Ridley Scott, Plus Alien Show Update

TheĀ Blade Runner franchise is in full swing actually becoming a franchise and not a couple distantly spaced movies right now. Ridley Scott revealed today that he’s been working on a new TV show set in the Blade RunnerĀ universe and that the pilot and “bible” have already been written. He also noted that theĀ AlienĀ TV show, first revealed last year, has a pilot written as well.

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“We’re already into having written the pilot forĀ Blade Runner and the bible,” Scott said in an interview with BBC4 Radio. “So already presenting Blade RunnerĀ as a TV show, so what (will) probably be the first 10 hours, and then AlienĀ is a similar thing.Ā AlienĀ is now being written for pilot.”

That means that the show will probably be a 10-episode series but also suggests that they are aiming for a multi-season show, not a limited series of any sort when it comes to Blade Runner. The bible of the series lays out the rules of the universe and the storyline for the first run of the show, meaning they’re pretty far along with it in terms of creation. The TV show currently does haven’t a home, but HBO Max seems like a good candidate as Scott and Blade Runner IP owner Alcon Entertainment work closely with Warner Bros.

The gut reaction to a classic piece of cinema being stretched out into a multiplatform franchise might be an eye roll, but it’s hard to be angry at a franchise that has delivered two cinematic masterpieces and a somewhat unheralded, groundbreaking video game. The verdict is still out on the anime series that debuted in August on Cartoon Network, though reviews have been mixed, but so far everything the franchise touches is gold.

Then again, we saw what happened when Ridley Scott began messing with Alien. That franchise has taken some hits thanks to the last two films and it doesn’t leave much to be excited about a new series, which is said to encompass 8-10 hours as well. The show is bringing the aliens to Earth this time and is said to lean into the horror aspects of the original film while still delivering on the action of basically every film after it.


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Matthew Razak is a News Writer and film aficionado at Escapist. He has been writing for Escapist for nearly five years and has nearly 20 years of experience reviewing and talking about movies, TV shows, and video games for both print and online outlets. He has a degree in Film from Vassar College and a degree in gaming from growing up in the '80s and '90s. He runs the website Flixist.com and has written for The Washington Post, Destructoid, MTV, and more. He will gladly talk your ear off about horror, Marvel, Stallone, James Bond movies, Doctor Who, Zelda, and Star Trek.