Amazon’s “Blade Runner 2099” series is set to hit Prime Video on November 25, but fans can refresh their memory by watching “Blade Runner 2049” for free on Pluto TV. The movie, which stars Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford, is a sci-fi epic that runs for 163 minutes.
The show “Blade Runner 2099” takes place 50 years after the events of “Blade Runner 2049” and stars Michelle Yeoh as Olwen, a replicant nearing the end of her life. While both movies are available to rent or buy on Prime Video, there’s no need to pay for the sequel when it’s streaming for free on Pluto TV.
“Blade Runner 2049” was directed by Denis Villeneuve, who also brought the “Dune” universe to life on the big screen. The movie does a good job of moving the universe forward and bringing the plight of the replicants back to the big screen.
Denis Villeneuve‘s interest in directing began when he was 13 or 14, and Ridley Scott’s “Blade Runner” was a big part of that. He saw the movie as a young teenager and has called it “inextricable from my passion for cinema.”
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Villeneuve was a sci-fi addict throughout his childhood, and when he heard there was going to be a sequel to “Blade Runner,” he thought it was “the most fantastic, exciting and at the same time perhaps the worst idea I ever heard.” He didn’t say yes right away, partly because he was about to start shooting “Arrival” and partly because he wanted to be sure he could make the world his own.
“Blade Runner 2049” bombed at the box office, making about $259 million worldwide in its original theatrical release. The movie was estimated to need around $400 million to break even. Despite this, it still has an 88% score on Rotten Tomatoes, where the critics’ consensus calls it “visually stunning and narratively satisfying.”
The movie won two Oscars at the 2018 Academy Awards, one for its visual effects and one for Roger Deakins’ cinematography. This was Deakins’ first Oscar win, despite being nominated 14 times going back to 1995. As the new series approaches, watching “Blade Runner 2049” for free on Pluto TV can be a good way to catch up on the movies that spawned it.
