Alcon has been looking to expand the Blade Runner world since they got the rights to the property (rights that restrict them from remaking the original 1982 film) and we saw the Blade Runner 2049 film last year as well as a short that was produced and streamed at Crunchyroll. Now, The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that a new thirteen-episode series inspired by that recent film is in the works with Crunchyroll with Adult Swim set to air it. Called Blade Runner: Black Lotus, there are no plot details yet regarding it but it will be set in 2032.
The series has Shinji Aramaki and Kenji Kamiyama directing it at Sold Digital Arts. Shinichiro Watanabe is on board as a creative producer.
“I first saw Blade Runner in 1982, at age 11. It has remained one of the defining films of my life,” said Jason DeMarco, senior vp/creative director of Adult Swim on-air. “To be able to explore more of this universe, with the incredible talent we have on board, is a dream come true.”
Adult Swim has the worldwide non-Asia rights to the dubbed version which will be on Toonami. Crunchyroll will handle the worldwide streaming.
Check out the 2022 short from last year below.
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.
