A ‘Blade Runner’ Anime Series is Coming to Adult Swim | No Film School

A new Blade Runner anime series has just been announced by Adult Swim! This has been one hell of a week for anime fans. First, the entirety of EVA (Neon Genesis Evangelion) was announced that it will be added to Netflix in the spring, then the long-rumored Cowboy Bebop live-action adaptation was finally greenlit (also by Netflix).

Now we get news that a new Blade Runner anime series title Blade Runner — Black Lotus will be on its way as well. Let’s look at what we know about this new series - including one legendary anime name already attached.

A Blade Runner Anime Series

First off, we can offer a pretty insightful glimpse into what this new Blade Runner anime series will look like because, well, it’s already been done. Blade Runner Black Out 2022 was released as a prologue to Blade Runner 2049 and was directed by anime legend Shinichirō Watanabe of Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo fame.

Shinichirō Watanabe’s Blade Runner

This new series - Blade Runner — Black Lotus - is also set to be directed by Watanabe and Shinji Aramaki and will span 13 episodes at first. It will also reunite Watanabe with composer Flying Lotus (with an obvious nod in the title) who did the soundtrack for Blade Runner Black Out 2022.

The Future of Blade Runner

Blade Runner Future

For fans of the franchise (is it fair to call it a franchise now?) this is good news for the possible prospects of another Blade Runner feature - or perhaps a feature spinoff of this anime series. Blade Runner 2049 director Denis Villeneuve has reportedly said on many occasions that a third sequel is indeed possible. Hopefully this new series will keep the iron hot for more Blade Runners in the future.

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What's the Hype With 'Interstellar' Revisiting Cinemas After a Decade in 70mm IMAX?

Here's Why You Need to Revisit 'Interstellar' in 70mm IMAX

Celebrate the love and hope at the center of Nolan's space epic in the format it was meant to be seen.

If we know anything about Christopher Nolan, he likes to go big. Nolan started with smaller-scale stories (as many of us do) with early noir adjacent works like Following, Memento, and Insomnia, then started going and staying big with his illusionist drama The Prestige. Since then, the scale has been various degrees of massive, with the biggest scope in his time-and-space sprawling epic, Interstellar.

While Interstellarmight not be everyone's favorite Nolan outing, there's no denying it's an impressive feat of filmmaking and his most emotional—if watching Matthew McConaughey's Cooper desperately try to reach his family through quantum space-time doesn't make you cry at least a little bit, what's going on, dude?

With Interstellar'sIMAX release, it's a great time to shed some tears in a public setting in one of the most prestigious film formats around. As we mentioned in our film gauge piece, Nolan loves shooting on film and utilizes 65mm intentionally to provoke a tone of massive scale. In that regard, Interstellar was made for 70mm IMAX. That goes without saying, dawg. That being said, other factors make Interstellar a perfect movie to revisit in theaters while you can.

Let's break down the release further below.

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