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It's been a while since we've had an update on Blade Runner 2099, the sequel series heading to Amazon Prime Video. The cast list is starting to take shape, as Oscar-winner and all-around icon Michelle Yeoh is set to play a lead role, as reported by Variety.
Plot details are being kept under wraps, but Variety has a source that says Yeoh will play a character named Olwen, who has been described as a replicant near the end of her life. That's pretty much all we know about the story, aside from the fact that it's set 50 years after Denis Villeneuve's critically acclaimed Blade Runner 2049. This is likely due to the fact that we'll be nowhere near the level of tech shown in that film when we actually hit the year 2049. The original Blade Runner, after all, was set in 2019.
Franchise creator Ridley Scott is involved in some capacity, but not as showrunner. That duty falls to TV writer Silka Luisa, who recently ran the Apple TV adaptation of the book Shining Girls. The show was great, so color me optimistic.
As for Yeoh, what more can be said? She won a long-deserved Oscar for her work in Everything, Everywhere, All at Once and has been involved with classic films lik
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Some live sports and studio shows from ESPN will start appearing on Disney this year. Disney CEO Bob Iger told investors on an earnings call that this follows an encouraging start for Hulu programming on the company's namesake streaming service.
"By the end of this calendar year, we will be adding an ESPN tile to Disney , giving all US subscribers access to select live games and studio programming within the Disney app," Iger said. "We see this as a first step to bringing ESPN to Disney viewers, as we ready the launch of our enhanced standalone ESPN streaming service in the fall of 2025." Iger also noted that ESPN subscribers will also be able to access content from that service through the new Disney tile, so Disney bundle subscribers will more or less have everything in one app.
Iger didn't reveal exactly what sports Disney would make available to everyone on Disney , but made it clear that it would only bring a "modest" amount of programming over from ESPN. The company is also working with Fox Sports and Warner Bros. Discovery on another sports streaming service that's
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