The premiere of Prime Video’s newest Blade Runner installment, Blade Runner 2099, is almost here. In a press release on Monday, the streaming service unveiled the series’ final trailer and announced that the eight-episode limited series will premiere on Nov. 25, 2026.
Blade Runner 2099 is set fifty years after the original Blade Runner 2049 movie. In that time, Los Angeles has completely reformed, absent of human intervention. The series follows Cora as she makes a last-ditch effort to assume the identity of a Blade Runner and escape her fugitive status. Cora has to partner with Olwen, a dying Replicant, to track down a runaway whose secrets could destroy the city.
The series will star Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All at Once, Crazy Rich Asians) and Hunter Schafer (Euphoria, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes) as its leads. Dimitri Abold (Beckenrand Sheriff, The Fairy Tale of the Magic Flute) and Lewis Gribben (Somewhere Boy, The Severed Sun) are set to be series regulars. The series will feature recurring guest stars Katelyn Rose Downey (The Princess, Clean Sweep), Daniel Rigby (I, Jack Wright, Careful How You Go), Johnny Harris (A Gentleman in Moscow, This is England ‘86), Amy Lennox (Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines, Never Let Me Go), Sheila Atim (The Woman King, Dust Bunny), Matthew Needham (House of the Dragon, The Ritual), Tom Burke (Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, True Things), and Maurizio Lombardi (Citadel: Diana, Romeo is Juliet).
Series creator Silka Luisa (Shining Girls, To the Bone) serves as showrunner and executive producer. The series will also be executive produced by Ridley Scott (Gladiator, The Dog Stars), Alcon Entertainment co-founders Andrew Kosove (Rendezvous, Racing Stripes) and Broderick Johnson (Rendezvous, Lost & Found), Alcon’s President of Television Ben Roberts (28 Years Later, Killing Eve), Steven Johnson (The End of Love, The Reunion), David W. Zucker (The Terror, Dope Thief) and Clayton Krueger (Alien: Earth, Dope Thief) from Scott Free Productions, Richard Sharkey (Warrior, Shantaram), Tom Spezialy (Ash vs Evil Dead, The Leftovers), Michael Green (Blue Eye Samurai, Raising Dion), Cynthia Yorkin (Arthur 2: On the Rocks, JAG), Frank Giustra (Searching for Satyrus, The Voice of Hind Rajab), Tim Gamble (I Am Raquel Welch, I AM Luke Perry), and Isa Dick Hackett (The Man in the High Castle, The Great C) serve as executive producers. Jonathan van Tulleken (Off Season, Anthony) directed the first two episodes of the limited series Blade Runner 2099 and is an executive producer.