With the near release of Blade Runner : 2049 this upcoming weekend, if the early press release reviews are anything to go by, this will be one of the best movies of the year if not one of the best in the Science Fiction genre.

The Acting talent of Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford and Jared Leto. Directorial talents of the up and coming Denis Villeneueve coupled with the soundtrack by Hans Zimmer himself and Cinematography of Roger Deakins, Warner Bros sure do have a blockbuster in hand.

Given the original Blade Runner released in 1982 was a futuristic story set in 2019 and the upcoming flick is a story set in 2049, Warner Bros and director Villeneueve hit a block where they needed to tell the audience about the happenings in this 30-year gap. This is where they turned to tell 3 short-stories released online in parts which would add to the lore and further the story. Blackout 2022 is one of those stories and with 15 mins runtime the longest of them all.

Blackout 2022 is helmed by Japanese anime director Shinichiro Wartnabe of Cowboy Bebop fame. With brisk strokes throughout the short it’s beautiful and haunting both in story and Visuals, it starts out quite and eerie it ends in an anarchic fashion with some very cool updates to fans of the movie as it furthers the lore.

You can watch it here below



Aside from Watanabe’s “Black Out 2022,” two other short films were alsoreleased as prequels for “Blade Runner 2049.” It includes the “Blade Runner 2036: Nexus Dawn” featuring Leto’s Neander Wallace, as well as the Baustista-starring “Blade Runner 2048: Nowhere to Run.”

The “Blade Runner 2049” is slated to come out in theaters on Friday, Oct. 6.