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Prime Video Unveils Blade Runner 2099 Trailer at New York Comic-Con With Michelle Yeoh and Hunter Schafer
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Prime Video unveils full trailer for Blade Runner 2099 at NYCC. Series premieres November 25 on Prime Video.
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NYCC Trailer, Nov. 25
Prime Video unveiled the full trailer for Blade Runner 2099 at New York Comic-Con, with Michelle Yeoh and Hunter Schafer joining showrunner Silka Luisa onstage for the reveal. Luisa told the NYCC panel Saturday night, "We are 50 years after [Blade Runner] 2049 and, bad news, the worst has happened."
“Prime Video will drop all eight episodes of Blade Runner 2099 on November 25, 2026.”
Prime Video will drop all eight episodes of Blade Runner 2099 on November 25, 2026, and the series is taking place roughly six weeks after its first look at San Diego Comic-Con. Yeoh stars as Olwen, the dying Replicant, while Schafer plays Cora, a human fugitive, as the show frames a world where the replicant uprising has taken place and the humans have lost.
Characters and the Mystery
The series positions Los Angeles as a transformed city where humanity is no longer in control, and the replicants have won after an uprising. Dark Horizons describes Michelle Yeoh as Olwen, a replicant Blade Runner hunting a group of missing rogue replicants as she approaches the predetermined end of her lifespan.
Hunter Schafer plays Cora, a human fugitive who has spent her life running from Blade Runners but must now pretend to be one, as she joins Olwen’s search for the missing replicants. Deadline frames Cora’s mission as a final bid to stop running, with Cora taking on one last identity as a Blade Runner to find "a runaway hiding a truth that could collapse a fragile city."
Franchise Ties and Stakes
Prime Video’s Blade Runner 2099 is set within the world of the films and a half-century after the events of Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049, and it arrives as a limited TV series on November 25. Ridley Scott executive produces and advises on the series, while Michael Green helped develop the project, and the show’s central mystery ties into the mythology.
El Periódico reports that Silka Luisa explained the series will explore the consequences of the replicant rebellion, posing what happens when humanity ceases to be the dominant species. The trailer’s premise centers on Cora, played by Hunter Schafer, deciding to assume the identity of a Blade Runner, and it complicates her plans as she becomes involved in an investigation that could endanger the fragile balance of the city.