‘Blade Runner 2099’ Adds Tom Burke and Maurizio Lombardi!!

Blade Runner 2099, the hotly-anticipated new science fiction miniseries, has just added two new cast members. Furiosa‘s Tom Burke and Ripley‘s Maurizio Lombardi will join Michelle Yeoh and Hunter Schafer in the latest entry in the Blade Runner franchise. Deadline reports that the series is now filming in Prague.

Burke and Lombardi‘s character details are currently being kept under wraps, as are most other character and plot details for the Amazon Prime Video series. What we do know is that it will be set in the year 2099, fifty years after Denis Villeneuve‘s 2017 sequel Blade Runner 2049, and eighty years after Ridley Scott‘s visionary 1982 original film, which was set in the then-distant future of 2019. Yeoh will play Olwen, a replicant nearing the end of her life. In addition to her and Schafer, the series will also star Dimitri Abold, Lewis Gribben, Katelyn Rose Downey, and Daniel Rigby. Burke and Lombardi will recur, as will previously-announced cast members Johnny Harris, Amy Lennox, Sheila Atim, and Matthew Needham.

Who Are Tom Burke and Maurizio Lombardi?

British actor Burke made his screen debut in 1999’s Dragonheart: A New Beginning, a direct-to-video sequel of the Dennis Quaid medieval fantasy film. He went on to make a number of appearances on British television, including State of Play, Great Expectations, and The Musketeers. His film roles include Only God Forgives, The Invisible Woman, and in David Fincher‘s Mank, where he played Orson Welles. He recently led the British TV series Strike and The Lazarus Project, and starred as Praetorian Jack in this summer’s Furiosa. He is next set to star in the Steven Soderbergh spy thriller Black Bag, alongside Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender, and the Cold War drama Winter of the Crow, opposite Lesley Manville. An Italian actor and playwright, Lombardi has appeared in a number of English-language productions. They include the TV series The Young Pope and its sequel The New Pope; the Netflix miniseries Ripley;, an adaptation of Patricia Highsmith‘s The Talented Mr. Ripley; and Ridley Scott’s 2017 biographical crime thriller All the Money in the World.

Blade Runner 2099 is showrun by Silka Luisa (Halo); Luisa also executive produces alongside Ridley Scott, 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. Steven Johnson will co-executive produce. Jonathan van Tulleken (Shogun) will direct the first two episodes.