“Blade Runner 2099’ will pick up 50 years in the future from the Denis Villeneuve-helmed sequel ‘Blade Runner 2049’ (2017) with Silka Luisa (‘Shining Girls’) writing and also executive producing the series alongside Ridley Scott.
“…in ‘Blade Runner 2049’ bioengineered humans known as replicants are slaves. ‘K’ , a ‘Nexus-9’ ‘replicant’, works for the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) as a ‘blade runner’ officer who hunts and kills rogue replicants.
“K's superior, ‘Lt. Joshi’, fears that this could lead to a war between humans and replicants. She orders K to find and retire the replicant child to hide the truth…”