Bang.
According to Variety, Alcon Television Group has partnered up with Adult Swim and Crunchyroll to make a Blade Runner anime a reality. Titled Blade Runner-Black Lotus, the series will run for 13 episodes inspired by the recent Blade Runner 2049. While details of the plot are slim, the series is allegedly set in 2032, and will feature some characters from the films. Adult Swim SVP and creative director Jason DeMarco gave this statement:
I first saw ‘Blade Runner’ in 1982, at age 11. It has remained one of the defining films of my life. To be able to explore more of this universe, with the incredible talent we have on board, is a dream come true.
Speaking of that talent, the series will be produced by Sola Digital Arts. Shinji Aramaki and Kenji Kamiyama are set to direct all episodes of the first season (following the completion of their work on the Ghost in the Shell reboot). And, in case you didn’t think that was enough talent, Shinichiro Watanabe will serve as a creative producer on the series. Fitting, as he directed one of the shorts leading up to Blade Runner 2049.
Andrew Kosove, Broderick Johnson, Laura Lancaster, and Al-Francis Cuenca from Alcon will executive produce, alongside Sola Digital Art’s Joseph Chou.Ben Roberts from Alcon will serve as co-executive producer. Mitsuhisa Ishikawa from Production IG will serve as a production adviser. This thing has so many producers.
Adult Swim will have the rights to run the series everywhere except Asia; the dubbed episodes will run on AS’s Toonami block. Crunchyroll will handle streaming concerns. Coincidentally, both of them belong to WarnerMedia.
Source: Variety
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