Blade Runner Black Out 2022

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Blade Runner Black Out 2022
Directed by	Shinichirō Watanabe
Written by	Shinichirō Watanabe
Produced by	Joseph Chou Al-Francis Cuenca Shun Kashima Nobuhiro Takenaka
Starring	Jovan Jackson Luci Christian Edward James Olmos
Cinematography	Shinichirō Etō
Edited by	Kiyoshi Hirose
Music by	Flying Lotus
Production companies	CygamesPictures Alcon Entertainment
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date	27 September 2017 (2017-09-27)
Running time	15 minutes
Countries	Japan United States
Language	English

Blade Runner Black Out 2022 is a 2017 anime short film directed by Shinichiro Watanabe and animated by Cygames Pictures. The short is one of three short films, (with 2036: Nexus Dawn and 2048: Nowhere to Run) that serve as prequels to the live-action film Blade Runner 2049. It debuted on 27 September 2017 on Crunchyroll.^[1][2]

Three years after the events of Blade Runner,^[3] the Tyrell Corporation has developed the new Nexus-8 line of replicants. The models possess open-ended lifespans, like those of humans. Unrest ensues. A replicant named Trixie, is assaulted by human thugs. She is rescued by Iggy, a replicant ex-soldier from the planet Calanthe, who deserted after he learned that the enemy were also replicants. He recruits Trixie into an underground freedom replicant movement which sets out to sabotage Tyrell's database and internet tracking, so that replicants cannot be so easily hunted.

Trixie then befriends Ren, a sympathetic human technician in charge of launching nuclear missiles. He agrees to redirect a test missile to detonate over Los Angeles. This will black out the city and, with an electromagnetic pulse, wipe out all electronic data. Trixie and Iggy set out to physically destroy the Tyrell Corporation's servers. Trixie dies in the attempt but the mission succeeds. Servers powering the internet are destroyed and power to Los Angeles is disabled, permanently. Iggy escapes. He removes his right eye, which can identify him as a replicant.

A global collapse follows. All replicant production scientific activity ends. Tyrell goes bankrupt. The Wallace Corporation acquires Tyrell and restarts production of a new model a decade later.

• Jovan Jackson as Iggy Cygnus
• Luci Christian as Trixie
• Bryson Baugus as Ren
• Edward James Olmos as Gaff

• Blade Runner: Black Lotus
• List of adaptations of works by Philip K. Dick

• Official website
• Blade Runner Black Out 2022 on YouTube
• Blade Runner Black Out 2022 at IMDb