‘Blade Runner 2099’: Hunter Schafer Joins Michelle Yeoh In Amazon Series

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Hunter Schafer is set to star opposite Michelle Yeoh in the Prime Video series Blade Runner 2099. She is the second Euphoria main cast member to book a new series, joining Eric Dane.

As Deadline reported, work on Season 3 of the HBO series continues, targeting a production start later this year. Amid a production delay, HBO in March allowed the cast to take other acting jobs; a Season 3 filming schedule would now have to be tailored around actors’ availability.

Details regarding Schafer’s role and the show’s plot are under wraps. Blade Runner 2099 is a Prime Video limited series following up the 2017 movie sequel Blade Runner 2049. It marks the latest expansion of the sci-fi franchise based on Philip K. Dick’s seminal novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, which kicked off with Ridley Scott’s classic 1982 film, Blade Runner. Denis Villeneuve released a sequel to Scott’s title in 2017 starring Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford titled Blade Runner 2045, the most recent title in the franchise for the big screen.

Production began overseas in the spring, following a delay of nearly a year due to the double strikes of 2023. While it originally had been set to shoot in Belfast, the show wound up relocating to Prague following the work stoppage.

In addition to serving as showrunner of the limited series, Silka Luisa is executive producing alongside 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. Jonathan van Tulleken (Shōgun) will be directing the first two episodes and also serve as EP, with Steven Johnson as co-executive producer. Film United is the production company in Prague.

Schafer made her acting debut portraying “Jules” in HBO’s Emmy Award-nominated drama Euphoria. She was recently seen in Lionsgate’s The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes in the role of “Tigris Snow,” cousin and confidante of “Coriolanus Snow” (Tom Blyth) in the prequel.

Most recently, Schafer wrapped production on the A24 feature Mother Mary opposite Anne Hathway and Michaela Coel. She also has a cameo alongside Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons in Yorgos Lanthimos’ Kinds of Kindness. Up next, she can be seen in Neon’s horror thriller Cuckoo to be released on August 2, 2024.

She is repped by CAA, Untitled Entertainment and Sloan, Offer, Weber and Dern.