Oscar winner Michelle Yeoh cast in Blade Runner 2099

Michelle Yeoh has found her next big role in Prime Video's limited series Blade Runner 2099. The prequel series follows the 2017 film Blade Runner 2049 starring Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford. Details about Yeoh's (photo below) role are not yet known, nor is the plot of the series. But it's the latest extension of the science fiction franchise based on Philip K. Dick's seminal novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, which started with Ridley Scott's classic 1982 film Blade Runner.



Production recently started abroad, after a delay of almost a year due to the twin strikes of 2023. Although filming was originally set to take place in Belfast, the series was moved to Prague following the work stoppage.

In addition to being showrunner of the limited series, Silka Luisa is executive producer along with Scott, Alcon Entertainment co-founders Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson, Alcon's President of Television Ben Roberts, David W. Zucker and Clayton Krueger of Scott Free Productions, Tom Spezialy, Richard Sharkey, Michael Green, Cynthia Yorkin, Frank Giustra and Isa Dick Hackett.

Jonathan van Tulleken directs the first two episodes and is also executive producer, with Steven Johnson as co-executive producer. Film United is the production company in Prague.

Last year, Yeoh became the first Oscar winner for Best Actress of Asian descent with Everything Everywhere All at Once. She recently appeared in The Brothers Sun and The Witcher: Blood Origin.

Yeoh was recently awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, and will soon be seen in Jon M. Chu's Wicked. Other upcoming projects include Alex Kurtzman's Star Trek: Section 31, in which she reprises her role as Emperor Philippa Georgiou from Star Trek: Discovery, and James Cameron's Avatar sequels.