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Blade Runner 2099 is an eight-episode limited series from Prime Video, set fifty years after Blade Runner 2049. Hunter Schafer plays Cora, a fugitive who takes a blade runner identity for one last case, and Michelle Yeoh plays Olwen, a Replicant days from dying who is forced to work with her. Showrunner Silka Luisa made the series with Ridley Scott as an executive producer. Prime Video announced at San Diego Comic-Con on 24 July 2026 that every episode premieres worldwide on 25 November 2026. The first full trailer followed at New York Comic Con on 10 October 2026, built around a case of missing replicants and a man said to know a cure for all of them.

NYCC Trailer

Prime Video released Blade Runner 2099 - NYCC Trailer, the series' first full-length trailer, with new key art carrying the tagline Welcome to a future we no longer control at its New York Comic Con panel on the Empire Stage on 10 October 2026. Where the teaser set up the world, this trailer sets up a mystery. Olwen says that 10 female and 18 male replicants have gone missing in the last year, and the footage says a man is out there who knows the cure for all replicants. Polygon reported that the case leads Cora and Olwen to a criminal gang of replicants who reject the idea that replicants should act human. SlashFilm read that cure as a way past the fixed death dates replicants live with, but the trailer does not explain it.

At the panel, Silka Luisa said Olwen was meant to be hunting human insurgents but was really looking for Merrick, a missing blade runner and colleague, the first one to disappear. She framed the mystery as why Merrick, who fought and sacrificed for replicant power, was walking away from it. Hunter Schafer said Cora's work is raided, she goes on the run to protect her little brother, and she goes undercover as a blade runner with the LAPD. Attendees also saw four clips that were not released online. In one, Olwen's blue nail beds mark that she is dying, a sign Luisa said came from close shots of Roy Batty's hands in the 1982 film.

Teaser Trailer

Prime Video posted the official teaser, titled Blade Runner 2099 - Official Teaser, at the Comic-Con panel. The clip shows Olwen and Cora in a Los Angeles held by replicants. Cora's narration says humans fought a war and lost, and that replicants left them with nothing. Olwen tells her that the old world fights to come back, that humans want what was taken from them, and that this is the replicants' time. The cut includes the neon, rain, and spinner traffic of the 1982 film, quieter rooms, amber haze, and a red sequence of people watching a ship lift off.

Official Premise

Michelle Yeoh as Olwen and Hunter Schafer as Cora standing in a shaft of light in Blade Runner 2099

Amazon's published logline places the story fifty years after Blade Runner 2049. Los Angeles has been rebuilt, and the rebuild was not done by humanity. Cora is a fugitive who takes one last identity, that of a blade runner, and is paired with Olwen, a replicant with little time left. The two hunt a runaway who is hiding a fact that could bring that city down. At New York Comic Con, executive producer Broderick Johnson called the series The Departed in the world of Blade Runner, and Andrew Kosove described it as a mystery with clues and Easter eggs reaching back before the first film. Episode titles and a scene-by-scene plot have not been released.

Characters

Cora with series regulars Dimitri Abold and Lewis Gribben in a workshop in Blade Runner 2099

Prime Video has named two leads and two other series regulars. Official stills show Cora with the two men billed beside her, and early credits attach those roles to Preston and Puck. Guest players are listed by actor only, and Amazon has not published their character names.

  • Cora (Hunter Schafer) is a fugitive who takes a blade runner identity for one last case and is ordered to work with Olwen while they hunt a runaway in 2099 Los Angeles.
  • Olwen (Michelle Yeoh) is a replicant blade runner with days left to live. The official premise pairs her with Cora. In the teaser she says humans want back what they lost, and at New York Comic Con Yeoh said Olwen goes from accepting her death to fighting it.
  • Preston (Dimitri Abold) is a series regular. Prime Video's announcement listed Abold without a character write-up, and early credits use the name Preston.
  • Puck (Lewis Gribben) is the other named series regular beside Cora and Olwen.

Merrick, the missing blade runner Olwen is looking for, was named at New York Comic Con, but Prime Video has not said who plays him. Recurring guest players on the official list are Katelyn Rose Downey, Daniel Rigby, Johnny Harris, Amy Lennox, Sheila Atim, Matthew Needham, Tom Burke, and Maurizio Lombardi. Schafer came to the series after Euphoria, Yeoh after Everything Everywhere All at Once, Abold after The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, and Gribben after Somewhere Boy. Needham joined the leads on the New York Comic Con panel and described his character as a junior partner stuck with Olwen.

Production

Michelle Yeoh as Olwen aiming a pistol in amber haze in Blade Runner 2099

Silka Luisa, who ran Shining Girls, is the showrunner and an executive producer. Jonathan van Tulleken directed the first two episodes and also produces. Ridley Scott is an executive producer through Scott Free, with David W. Zucker and Clayton Krueger from that company on the same list. Alcon Entertainment co-founders Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson produce with Alcon television president Ben Roberts, alongside Tom Spezialy, Richard Sharkey, Michael Green, Cynthia Yorkin, Frank Giustra, and Isa Dick Hackett. Steven Johnson is a co-executive producer.

Principal photography ran in Prague and wrapped in late December 2024. Amazon first talked about a Blade Runner series in 2022. Trade reports had pointed at a 2027 window until the Hall H panel locked 25 November 2026 and showed the teaser. Writer credits on the eight episodes include Luisa, Kirsa Rein, Monika Revilla, Spezialy, and CK Kiechel, with later episodes listed without public titles.

Release Date

Hunter Schafer as Cora standing in a red corridor lined with bulbs in Blade Runner 2099

All eight episodes of Blade Runner 2099 premiere on Prime Video on 25 November 2026, in more than 240 countries and territories, with no weekly schedule. The date is the Wednesday before the United States Thanksgiving holiday. Prime Video is the only announced home, and no theatrical window has been attached to the series.

Lore Connections

A spinner over a night city on the cover art used for K. W. Jeter's Blade Runner novels

From 2049 To 2099

Blade Runner 2099 continues the two films, fifty years after Blade Runner 2049. In that film, Lieutenant Joshi treated a replicant birth as a cause for war between humans and replicants. Freysa's underground was gathering in Los Angeles, and Niander Wallace wanted replicant reproduction so he could staff more off-world labor. The 2099 teaser has Cora say humans fought a war and lost, and it shows a ship lifting off. Replicants hold the city, and the runaway she hunts hides a fact that could bring it down.

The Blade Runner Timeline

The two films, the three prelude shorts, the 2032 anime Blade Runner: Black Lotus, and the Titan comics share one Alcon timeline. Those comics include Blade Runner: Origins, Tokyo Nexus, and the Ash books set in 2019, 2029, and 2039. Blade Runner 2099 continues that timeline. No later novel or comic is set after 2049.

Return Of Mercerism And Buster Friendly

A tower billboard reading Buster Friendly, with Live From Mexico down the side, in the Blade Runner 2099 teaser

The teaser shows coastal Los Angeles in amber haze, with two names from Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? on the buildings. A tower-sized screen reads Buster Friendly in red neon, and Live From Mexico runs down the side of that same building. Across the water, a lower red board reads Have You Felt With Mercer. Neither name ever appeared on screen in the 1982 film or Blade Runner 2049, and the 2099 boards put that host and that religion on buildings in the city the replicants hold.

In the novel, Mercerism was the public religion of Earth and the colonies. A person gripped a black empathy box and joined Wilbur Mercer on a climb that other living users shared at the same moment. Buster Friendly hosted a twenty-three-hour show, mocked that religion for months, and then revealed that Mercer was a bit player named Al Jarry. The same 2099 trailer campaign also uses climb imagery that echoes the empathy box.

Parallels With The Jeter Novels

A colony ship lifting away from a planet in red light in the Blade Runner 2099 teaser

K. W. Jeter wrote three authorized sequels to the 1982 film from 1995 to 2000. Blade Runner 2049 later contradicted those books, and they are not canon to Blade Runner 2099. In Blade Runner 2: The Edge of Human, Isidore hid escaped replicants so they could pass as human, and a human Roy Batty claimed the blade runners themselves were replicants with false memories. The books repeatedly used uncertain or assumed identities, a theme that returns with Cora, a fugitive who assumes the identity of a blade runner for one last job

Blade Runner: Replicant Night followed in 1996. Deckard lived on Mars after the U.N. closed the route to the far colonies. Replicants held those worlds, and humans sent onward were killed before any word could reach Earth. The 2099 teaser puts that hold in Los Angeles: humans fought a war and lost, and replicants control the city. Blade Runner 4: Eye and Talon followed female blade runner Iris Knaught. A colleague showed her that she had Rachael's face, and the novel does not settle whether Iris was a replicant. Cora is also a woman on a blade runner case, but she is a fugitive in the city the replicants hold.

Conclusion

Blade Runner 2099 is Prime Video's eight-episode limited series, set fifty years after Blade Runner 2049. Hunter Schafer plays the fugitive Cora, and Michelle Yeoh plays the dying replicant Olwen. Their case centers on missing replicants, the vanished blade runner Merrick, and a rumored cure for all replicants, as the New York Comic Con trailer revealed. Silka Luisa runs the show, Ridley Scott is an executive producer, and all eight episodes premiere on 25 November 2026.

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