At this year's San Diego Comic-Con, the team behind Blade Runner 2049 revealed a timeline that traces selected events between the story of the original film (set in 2019) and the 2049 setting of the sequel. Now there are three short films aiming to fill in some of those narrative gaps in the 30 years between Rick Deckard's (Harrison Ford) disappearance and where we catch up with him. Watch the first, 2036: Nexus Dawn, below.
The short (directed by Luke Scott) finds Jared Leto's Bee Gee-looking Niander Wallace going before a board of enquiry concerned that he's breached a longstanding ban on Replicant development. With the synthetic beings outlawed since a blackout that shut down cities and caused financial crashes and food shortages, the magistrates (led by Benedict Wong) are shocked to see that Wallace has moved forward with a new line of the creations. He's convinced that he has cracked the way to keep them obedient, and he demonstrates with brutal efficiency.
It's an effective little short, and we look forward to seeing the others ahead of the film's release. With Denis Villeneuve in the director's chair and Ryan Gosling, Ana de Armas, Sylvia Hoeks, Robin Wright, Mackenzie Davis and Dave Bautista among those joining Ford in the new movie, Blade Runner 2049 will be out in the UK on 6 October.
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