Crouching Tiger, Hidden Blade Runner
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Good morning: In today's edition of The Industry, we look at:
Michelle Yeoh's tears in rain, Olivia Colman's fractured families, John C. Reilly's AI wife, Cannes' Smart House, and a model car.
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CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN BLADE RUNNER
Michelle Yeoh has just been cast in Blade Runner 2099.
The series takes place fifty years after Blade Runner 2049 (2017), the Denis Villeneuve-directed follow-up to the Ridley Scott-directed original Blade Runner (1982).
Yeoh will play a replicant at the end of her life.
Replicants are synthetic humans that are the target of permanent retirement, e.g., assassination by a specialized police force or the blade runners.
Yeoh herself felt she was headed for retirement before she took on her Oscar-winning role as a mother turned superhero in the sci-fi Everything Everywhere All At Once.
She explained: