The new trailer for Blade Runner 2099 is here, with the highly anticipated limited series led by two major LGBTQIA+ icons and allies.
The sci-fi thriller stars community-proclaimed ally Michelle Yeoh and prominent trans actress Hunter Schafer, with the trailer showing us just a hint of the dark, futuristic world awaiting us.
Set 50 years after the events of Blade Runner 2049, the upcoming limited series returns audiences to a dystopian Los Angeles, where humanity and artificial intelligence are once again at the centre of the story.
The newly released trailer shows us a dark, neon-soaked future, with the perfect blue, orange and green colour palette one would expect.
Blade Runner 2099Source: IMDB
And with Schafer, a trans actress best known for Euphoria, sharing the screen with Oscar-winning actress and ally Yeoh, there’s a whole lot for us to look forward to.
All eight episodes of Blade Runner 2099 will premiere on Prime Video on November 25, 2026.
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About Blade Runner 2099
Taking place five decades after the events of Blade Runner 2049, the new series follows Cora, a fugitive who has spent her life assuming different identities to survive.
In a final attempt to escape her past, Cora takes on one last identity as a Blade Runner.
She is forced to partner with Olwen, a Replicant approaching the end of her life, as the pair hunt down a runaway whose secrets could threaten the future of their “fragile city”.
The series expands the Blade Runner universe, returning to its familiar questions about what it means to be human, who gets to decide and what happens when the line between humans and artificial beings begins to blur.
Schafer stars as Cora, with Yeoh playing Olwen. The cast also includes Dimitri Abold, Lewis Gribben, Katelyn Rose Downey, Daniel Rigby, Johnny Harris and Sheila Atim.
Silka Luisa serves as creator, showrunner and executive producer, while Blade Runner director Ridley Scott is among the series’ executive producers. Jonathan van Tulleken, known for his work on Shōgun, directed the first two episodes.
A brief history of Blade Runner
The Blade Runner universe began with Ridley Scott’s 1982 film, starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer and Sean Young.
Based loosely on Philip K. Dick’s 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, the original film was set in a dystopian Los Angeles in 2019, where genetically engineered beings known as Replicants are manufactured for off-world labour.
Ford plays Rick Deckard, a former police officer called back to hunt down rogue Replicants who have returned to Earth.
The film is known for its neo-noir aesthetic and unsettling questions about artificial life, though it was initially said to be quite divisive.
Nevertheless, the film went on to develop a devoted following and become one of the genre’s most influential works.
In 2017, Blade Runner 2049 continued the story, with Ryan Gosling starring as K, a Replicant working as a Blade Runner for the Los Angeles Police Department.
When K uncovers a long-buried secret that could destabilise society, his investigation leads him to Deckard, who has been missing for 30 years.
Now, Blade Runner 2099 takes the franchise into another era, with a new generation of characters navigating the consequences of a world built on the exploitation of artificial beings — an interesting topic considering the current climate.
The series premieres November 25 on Prime Video.
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