Blade Runner is the newest big-budget product to announce adjustments to its taking pictures agenda this 12 months, with the TV sequence not set to be filmed in Northern Eire.

The BBC studies that the sequence titled Blade Runner 2099, commissioned via streamer Amazon Video with unique movie director Ridley Scott on board as an govt manufacturer, used to be because of be filmed on location in Belfast, based totally out of Belfast Harbour Studios. Filming at the sequence used to be up to now behind schedule because of the actors and writers’ strike.

Whilst the cause of the alternate stays unclear, the executive govt of Northern Eire Display screen Richard Williams has expressed his unhappiness in a remark:

“We’re aware that those tricky selections do occur within the display screen business, in particular with the most costly tasks which elevate the best expectancies.

“This clearly leaves an opening in Northern Eire’s manufacturing agenda and Northern Eire Display screen will do the whole lot it may possibly to plug that hole as temporarily as conceivable, aware that many freelance workforce and provide chain corporations have been depending in this venture for paintings.”

The BBC studies that Northern Eire Display screen had given the manufacturing £4.1m in display screen investment, cash which is able to now be returned.

The sequence used to be deliberate as a 10-parter, following on from the occasions of the movies. Harrison Ford starred within the unique 1982 movie. Whilst the primary movie loved a meagre preliminary field place of work, it loved longrunning cult standing with sci-fi fanatics, and the sequel Blade Runner 2049, co-starring Ford and Ryan Gosling, made $267m on its free up in 2017.