Blade Runner 2099 first trailer sets November 25 premiere date at Comic-Con

Trailer reveal and release date

Prime Video finally lifted the curtain on Blade Runner 2099 during a Hall H presentation at San Diego Comic-Con on July 24. The first teaser trailer for the live-action limited series confirms that all eight episodes will land on the platform on November 25, 2026. Showrunner Silka Luisa, creator of Apple TV+'s Shining Girls, leads the project, with original Blade Runner director Ridley Scott serving as executive producer alongside David W. Zucker and Clayton Krueger of Scott Free Productions.

The series has been under development for nearly five years. Amazon first revealed it was working on a Blade Runner TV series in 2022, but production was extended by the 2023 Hollywood strikes. The Comic-Con debut marks the first public look at the project, which stars Oscar winner Michelle Yeoh and Euphoria breakout Hunter Schafer as co-leads. Jonathan van Tulleken, who directed episodes of Shōgun, will helm the first two hours.

Plot: a fragile city under replicant rule

Set 50 years after the events of Blade Runner 2049, the series returns to a transformed Los Angeles. Replicants are now the dominant societal force, with humans reduced to a minority. The premise follows Cora, a fugitive who takes on a new identity as a blade runner to stop running from her past. Her path crosses with Olwen, a replicant with only days left to live. Forced to work together, they hunt down a runaway whose secret threatens to collapse the fragile city.

The trailer is soaked in cyberpunk aesthetics (bleak cityscapes, dramatic narration and distinctly good coats) and hints at a war between replicants and humans that unfolded after 2049. In one exchange, Olwen spells out the new order.

The old world forever fights to come back. Humans want what was taken from them. But it’s our time now.

Cast and creative team

Yeoh plays Olwen, a replicant grappling with the end of her life. Schafer plays Cora, the reluctant blade runner. The ensemble includes Dimitri Abold and Lewis Gribben as series regulars, with recurring roles from Katelyn Rose Downey, Daniel Rigby, Johnny Harris, Amy Lennox, Sheila Atim, Matthew Needham (House of the Dragon) and Tom Burke (Furiosa). Ridley Scott remains attached as executive producer, though he does not direct the episodes.

Franchise legacy

Blade Runner began with Philip K. Dick’s 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and Ridley Scott’s 1982 film, which starred Harrison Ford as Rick Deckard. After initial box office failure, the movie was re-evaluated as a cyberpunk masterpiece. A sequel, Blade Runner 2049, directed by Denis Villeneuve and starring Ryan Gosling alongside a returning Ford, arrived in 2017. The universe has since grown through short films, an anime limited series (Blade Runner: Black Lotus, 2021) and now its first live-action TV extension.

Production journey and timeline

Blade Runner 2099 was largely shot in the Czech Republic at Prague’s Barrandov Studios, with additional filming in Barcelona. Film United handled the Prague production. The timeline below tracks the project’s path from development to release.

All eight episodes will stream on Prime Video beginning November 25, marking a return for the franchise nine years after the last film chapter.