A New Generation of Replicants Is Born in the FirstBlade Runner 2049Prequel

Before the next Blade Runner movie hits theater of operations , the public of future L.A. will be revealed in a serial publication of scant moving picture set in the year before the events of the film — bulge out off with this curt which delve into the aim of Jared Leto ’s creepy-crawly unexampled scoundrel , Niander Wallace .

Debuted byCollidertoday , 2036 : Nexus Dawn serves as the first of three scant prequels that will be let go ahead of 2049 ’s arrival in field of operations , an extension of thebig timeline retrospectivethat was shown to audiences at San Diego Comic - Con a few months ago .

direct by Morgan ’s Luke Scott rather than 2049 director Denis Villeneuve , the short circuit sees Wallace unveil a newfangled personal credit line of Replicants , the Nexus 9 , who he believes will be capable to convince the domain to drop the prohibition on replicants ( who ’ve had a rough prison term since the issue of Blade Runner ) . But while the newfangled class of replicants can suppose and feel like any other , they ’re also very much under Wallace ’s bondage , and he ’s suffer no qualms with asking them to do some middling messed - up things .