Michelle Yeoh will star in the new Blade Runner series

Michelle Yeoh has been cast in a lead role of the new Blade runner series heading our way from Amazon Prime.

The series, called Blade Runner 2099, is a sequel to both the original “Blade Runner” film and the followup film, “Blade Runner 2049.”

Exact plot details are being kept under wraps, but Variety states that Yeoh will play a character named Olwen, described as a replicant near the end of her life.

Production recently began overseas, following a delay of nearly a year due to the double strikes of 2023. While it originally had been set to shoot in Belfast, the show wound up relocating to Prague.

In addition to serving as showrunner of the limited series, Silka Luisa is exec producing alongside Scott, Alcon Entertainment co-founders Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson, Alcon’s President of Television Ben Roberts, David W. Zucker and Clayton Krueger from Scott Free Productions, Tom Spezialy, Richard Sharkey, Michael Green, Cynthia Yorkin, Frank Giustra and Isa Dick Hackett. Jonathan van Tulleken (Shōgun) is directing the first two episodes and also serves as EP, with Steven Johnson as co-executive producer. Film United is the production company in Prague.