‘Blade Runner’ Receiving the Web Series Treatment - MTV Movies

Slated for a summer debut, Ridley Scott is developing “Purefold,” a web series loosely based on Blade Runner themes, though copyright issues involving source material from Philip K. Dick’s novel “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” will likely prevent the series creators from pulling characters and plotlines directly from the film.

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Ridley, Tony and Luke Scott are developing the project under their RSA Films shingle, and are working alongside independent studio Ag8. The series will be made up of five to 10 minute shorts set one or two years in our future, roughly a decade before the time period of Scott’s 1982 film. The plot will eventually carry into the film’s era, with the plot being shaped along the way based on audience feedback, similar to Ag8’s British sitcom “Where are the Joneses?”

A successful run for the web series may lead to future development for television.