A new short movie taking place in the world of Blade Runner reveals more about the backstory of Jared Leto’s character in Blade Runner 2049. Leto (Suicide Squad) will portray Niander Wallace, a blind man whose Wallace Corp. has acquired the means to create its own replicants. Wallace looked in trailers to be just as powerful and impactful on 2049-era Los Angeles as the Tyrell Corp. was in 2019 in the original Blade Runner, raising questions of how his character rose to prominence.
At San Diego Comic-Con in July, Warner Bros. revealed more details of the timeline between the original Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049. Wallace first solved world hunger with genetically engineered food in 2025, later buying the Tyrell Corp. in 2028. But five years before that in 2023, an indefinite “prohibition” had been imposed on the making of replicants, which Wallace looked to ...
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