Blade Runner Black Out 2022
Directed byShinichirō Watanabe
Written byShinichirō Watanabe
Produced byJoseph Chou
Al-Francis Cuenca
Shun Kashima
Nobuhiro Takenaka
StarringJovan Jackson
Luci Christian
Edward James Olmos
CinematographyShinichirō Etō
Edited byKiyoshi Hirose
Music byFlying Lotus
Production
companies
Distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures
Release date
  • 27 September 2017 (2017-09-27)
Running time
15 minutes
CountriesJapan
United States
LanguageEnglish

Blade Runner Black Out 2022 is a 2017 tech-noir cyberpunk anime short film directed by Shinichiro Watanabe and animated by Cygames Pictures. The short is one of three short films, (with 2036: Nexus Dawn and 2048: Nowhere to Run) that serve as prequels to the live-action film Blade Runner 2049. It debuted on 27 September 2017 on Crunchyroll.[1][2]

Plot

Three years after the events of Blade Runner,[3] the Tyrell Corporation has developed the new Nexus-8 line of replicants. The models possess open-ended lifespans, like those of humans. Unrest ensues. A replicant named Trixie, is assaulted by human thugs. She is rescued by Iggy, a replicant ex-soldier from the planet Calanthe, who deserted after he learned that the enemy were also replicants. He recruits Trixie into an underground freedom replicant movement which sets out to sabotage Tyrell's database and internet tracking, so that replicants cannot be so easily hunted.

Trixie then befriends Ren, a sympathetic human technician in charge of launching nuclear missiles. He agrees to redirect a test missile to detonate over Los Angeles. This will black out the city and, with an electromagnetic pulse, wipe out all electronic data. Trixie and Iggy set out to physically destroy the Tyrell Corporation's servers. Trixie dies in the attempt but the mission succeeds. Servers powering the internet are destroyed and power to Los Angeles is disabled, permanently. Iggy escapes. He removes his right eye, which can identify him as a replicant.

A global collapse follows. All replicant production scientific activity ends. Tyrell goes bankrupt. The Wallace Corporation acquires Tyrell and restarts production of a new model a decade later.

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References

  1. ↑ Barder, Ollie (27 September 2017). "'Blade Runner Black Out 2022' Is Finally Released And It Is A Fantastic Piece Of Anime". Forbes.
  2. ↑ Complex, Valerie (29 September 2017). "Blade Runner Blackout 2022 Review". GameSpot.
  3. ↑ D'Anastasio, Cecilia (27 September 2017). "Cowboy Bebop Director's New Blade Runner Anime Is Killer". Kotaku.
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