'Blade Runner 2099' Drops Full Trailer at NYCC: Michelle Yeoh and Hunter Schafer Team Up, All 8 Episodes Hit Prime Video Nov. 25
On October 10, Prime Video unveiled the first full trailer and key art for the eight-episode limited series 'Blade Runner 2099' at a packed New York Comic Con panel, with stars Michelle Yeoh and Hunter Schafer, creator/showrunner Silka Luisa and fellow cast members taking the stage. All eight episodes will premiere at once on Prime Video on November 25, 2026, in more than 240 countries and territories.
Set 50 years after 'Blade Runner 2049' — and 80 years after Ridley Scott's 1982 original — the story finds Los Angeles reborn, but no longer ruled by humanity. Schafer plays Cora, a fugitive who takes on one last identity, a Blade Runner, in a final bid to stop running; Yeoh plays Olwen, a Replicant Blade Runner who is days from dying. Forced to partner up, they hunt a runaway hiding a truth that could collapse their fragile city. The trailer's central mystery: dozens of Replicants have gone missing over the past year, pointing to a criminal Replicant faction and a secret 'cure' for the Replicants' programmed lifespans.
Luisa told the NYCC audience the series asks what happens 'when one species is ending and a new one is rising' — the original film explored mortality on an individual level, while '2099' scales that question up to an entire civilization. She also confirmed the eight episodes form a complete, self-contained story, and that Harrison Ford does not appear in the show.
The cast also includes Dimitri Abold, Lewis Gribben and Matthew Needham, among others; Ridley Scott serves as executive producer, and Jonathan van Tulleken directed the first two episodes. A teaser debuted at San Diego Comic-Con in July; the NYCC trailer is the first full-length look.
The official poster tagline, 'Welcome to a future we no longer control,' sums up the premise: in this future, the Replicants are no longer content to let 'More Human Than Human' remain just a corporate slogan.
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