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Bloober Team’s ‘The Medium’ Is Being Adapted for a Television Series
If you thought DreadXP’s The Mortuary Assistant getting a film adaptation was a no-brainer, then you might as well put Bloober Team’s The Medium getting a television adaptation in the same category. Yep, Bloober Team is teaming up with Platige Image to develop a TV series based on the game.
Tomasz Bagiński and Bloober Team’s Piotr Babieno will be overseeing the show. Bagiński is also executive producer on another adaptation of a video game franchise in The Witcher, which will see Season 3 arrive next year on Netflix.
“Both the film industry and the video game industry are close to my heart, and I am very happy that there is finally an opportunity to bring them both together,” says Babieno. “The story we told in the game was appreciated by players, and now more people will be able to hear about it. The latest hits of streaming platforms based on games such as Cyberpunk: Edgerunners or Arcane have shown that this is the perfect time for such productions.”
According to the agreement, the budget for developing The Medium into a television series will be covered by Bloober and Platige. After development work is finished, if Bloober and Platige start joint production of the series, it will be carried out under a co-production agreement, or through a “special purpose vehicle”.
Obviously, things are getting interesting with Bloober Team, especially since you-know-what doesn’t seem to be going away any time soon. The decision to adapt The Medium is again an obvious one, seeing as the game was a hit with fans (and us). It’s currently available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series and PC via Steam.
And speaking of no-brainers, just where is that Alan Wake TV adaptation?
Seven years after Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049, Blade Runner is headed to the small screen in Amazon’s upcoming Blade Runner 2099, and Deadline reports this morning that the cast list is growing.
Dimitri Abold (The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes), Lewis Gribben (Somewhere Boy), Katelyn Rose Downey (The Nun II), and Daniel Rigby (Renegade Nell) are joining previously announced cast members Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All At Once) and Hunter Schafer (Cuckoo).
Johnny Harris (A Gentleman in Moscow“), Amy Lennox (Only Child), Sheila Atim (The Woman King), and Matthew Needham (House of the Dragon) join as recurring guest stars.
Of course, no character or plot details have been revealed at this time, but production is underway, so expect more news to follow in the coming months. Ridley Scott (Blade Runner) is executive producing the live action television series, with Blade Runner 2099 said to be a follow-up to the events of film sequel Blade Runner 2049.
“The latest installment of the neo-noir sci-fi franchise will be set 50 years after the sequel.”
Blade Runner 2099 comes from Alcon Entertainment, Scott Free, and Amazon Studios. Silka Luisa (“Shining Girls”) is writing, showrunning, and executive producing.
Jonathan van Tulleken (“Shōgun”) will direct and executive produce the first two episodes.
“The original Blade Runner, directed by Ridley Scott, is considered one of the greatest and most influential science-fiction movies of all time, and we’re excited to introduce Blade Runner 2099 to our global Prime Video customers,” Amazon Studios’ Vernon Sanders recently said.
The show marks Alcon’s first TV series in the Blade Runner universe since it acquired film, television and ancillary rights to produce prequels and sequels to the 1982 science-fiction thriller Blade Runner in 2011. Since then, it has financed and produced Blade Runner 2049.
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 produce.
Stay tuned for more on “Blade Runner 2099” as additional details arrive.
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