Today's TCA panel clarified where ‘Black Lotus’ fits in the Blade Runner timeline, and told us more about the journey of Elle, the new 'hero' replicant.
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During the panel, Toonami co-creator Jason DeMarco said that the journey to create
Black Lotus has been a long one –– about five years long, from initial conversations to actual creation. But in a way, that’s not entirely true: executive producer Jason Chou wanted to develop an anime for the cult classic sci-fi film after he finished work on
The Animatrix, an anthology film set in the universe of the Wachowski’s cyberpunk movie. To him,
Blade Runner felt like a great follow up, largely because of the circular cyberpunk nature that it had with larger pop culture, including