Blade Runner 2022 Anime Sneak Peak

Blade Runner 2022 Anime Sneak Peak

From Cowboy Bebop Director

By Alex Burns

Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo director, Shinichiro Watanabe is taking on the world of Blade Runner in a new anime short from Sony Pictures Japan. Titled Blade Runner Black Out 2022, the new feature takes place a few years after the events of first movie and is set during a power outage.

“The work that has influenced me the most in my anime profession would be, of course, Blade Runner,” Watanabe says in the teaser clip.

The footage shows test animation, concept art, and a few quick clips of animation. Watanabe also details he is paying maximum respect to the original Blade Runner and trying not to create an imitation when working on this new project.

Blade Runner Black Out 2022 will be available to view on the official Sony Pictures Japan YouTube page later this month.

The film will offer more insight into the neo noir world of Blade Runner along with the upcoming release of Blade Runner 2049 in cinemas next month, more on that below!


Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K (Ryan Gosling), unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what’s left of society into chaos. K’s discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), a former blade runner who has been missing for 30 years.

Blade Runner 2049, coming to theaters on October 6, 2017, also stars Ana de Armas, Sylvia Hoeks, Robin Wright, Mackenzie Davis, Carla Juri, Lennie James, with Dave Bautista and Jared Leto.

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