Blade Runner: Black Lotus, new trailer on the notes of Alessia Cara
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The staff and cast of the anime series Blade Runner: Black Lotus unveiled a new trailer and poster during their streaming panel at Comic-Con @ Home 2021 which took place yesterday. It was also announced during the presentation that Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Alessia Cara is contributing to the series' soundtrack.Blade Runner: Black Lotus - information and synopsis
The sci-fi anime series takes a closer look at who is leading the world in the aftermath of the events shown in the animated short Blade Runner: Black Out 2022, after the Tyrell Corporation of the original Blade Runner film, set in 2019 (buy here on Amazon your Blu-Ray 4K copy of Blade Runner: The Final Cut - Steelbook Edition), and before the Wallace Corporation sequel Blade Runner 2049.
Unlike the movies, the series is set from of prey: a replicant or an artificially created humanoid being. Staff pointed out that the anime series reflects the dystopian world and anti-capitalist themes of Philip K. Dick's original novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? For this reason it also reflects what is happening in the real world as, despite class division, discrimination and alienation, there may still be room for love and hope.
The cast includes:
Arisa Shida as Elle, a replicant created for a secret and unknown purpose, Shinshū Fuji as Joseph, a mysterious figure who owns a spare parts dump in Los Angeles, Takako Honda as Alani Davis , a new LAPD recruit Takaya Hashi will be Niander Wallace Sr, founder and CEO of the Wallace Corporation, Takehito Koyasu as Niander Wallace Jr, a brilliant scientist who works for his father, Taiten Kusunoki as Marlowe, a lethal Blade Runner, Yoshiko Sakakibara as Josephine Grant, the wife of the chief of police, Hochu Otsuka as Earl Grant, chief of police of the LAPD, Takayuki Kinba as Doc Badger, a black market trader, Masane Tsukayama as Senator Bannister , a politician with strong feelings for producing replicants. Akio Nojima plays Doctor M, a brilliant doctor and professor of medicine, Kazuki Yao as Hooper, a journalist employed by the Wallace Corporation.
Crunchyroll and Adult Swim are teaming up with Alcon Entertainment to produce the anime series 13-episode television based on Blade Runner 2049, the sequel to the 1982 film Blade Runner. The story of the series will take place in 2032, between the two films, and will include some familiar characters.
Shinji Aramaki (Ultraman, Appleseed) and Kenji Kamiyama (Ultraman, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex) are directing all episodes for Sola Digital Arts. Both directors previously worked together on Ultraman and Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045. Shinichiro Watanabe (Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo) is the creative producer of the series.
Andrew Kosove, Broderick Johnson, Laura Lancaster and Al-Francis Cuenca of Alcon Entertainment are executive producers on the project along with Joseph Chou of Sola Digital Arts. Alcon executive Ben Roberts is co-executive producer and Production IG's Mitsuhisa Ishikawa is a production consultant.
Blade Runner: Black Lotus - poster and trailer
Below you can find the official poster…… and the new launch trailer for the series, which also includes the original song Feel You Now by Alessia Cara:
Blade Runner: Black Lotus will arrive this fall, but a precise release date has not yet been announced.
'Blade Runner: Black Lotus' anime trailer reveals a replicant on the run
Adult Swim and Crunchyroll has released the first trailer for Blade Runner: Black Lotus, the anime series they're co-producing, at San Diego Comic-Con this year. The show is set in Los Angeles in the year 2032, putting its events in between the original Harrison Ford movie set in 2019 and the sequel film starring Ryan Gosling set in 2049. It features a new replicant named Elle known as the 'Black Lotus,' who was created with special powers. She seems to have escaped from her creators, and is currently being hunted down by authorities.
In the action-packed trailer, you'll see Elle take down foe after foe — she goes from not knowing how she's able to knock a handful of men completely out cold to wielding a katana — in a backdrop of smoke, fog and neon lights. Elle is voiced by Jessica Henwick (Iron Fist) in the English version and Arisa Shida in the Japanese version. The show will run for 13 episodes, which will be directed by Shinji Aramaki (Ultraman, Ghost in the Shell: SAC 2045) and Kenji Kamiyama (Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, SAC_2045). It's produced by Alcon Entertainment and animation studio Sola Digital Arts, with Shinichiro Watanabe (Cowboy Bebop) serving as a creative producer.
When Blade Runner: Black Lotus debuts this fall, you can watch it in English on Adult Swim and in Japanese on Crunchyroll.
