The reveal earlier this month that one of the shorts that are being produced ahead of the new Blade Runner 2049 from Warner Bros. was going to include an anime short definitely delight us. The shorts have been working to fill in the gaps between the new film and the original film that took place in 2019 and the new one in 2049. While Crunchyroll streamed it on their service earlier this week, the short from writer/director Shinichiro Watanabe through Cygames Pictures has also now gotten additional streaming through Warner Bros. official YouTube channel that will reach a different audience.
Warner Bros. previously confirmed that they will be handling the domestic distribution while Sony will handle the international side. The cast includes Harrison Ford, Ryan Gosling, Robin Wright, Dave Bautista and Ana de Armas.
The script comes from Hampton Fancher, who co-wrote the original, along with Michael Green with Ridley Scott producing while Denis Villeneuve is directing and the legendary Roger Deakins as the cinematographer.
Plot concept: Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K (Ryan Gosling), unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what’s left of society into chaos. K’s discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years.
