Blade Runner 2099 Gets Prime Video Release Date and Teaser; Check Out the Details

Prime Video will release the highly anticipated series Blade Runner 2099 on November 25 in more than 240 countries and territories. The official announcement came during the production’s panel at San Diego Comic-Con, alongside the reveal of the first teaser trailer. The platform will make all eight episodes of the season available at once.

Manhunt and Replicants: The Plot of Blade Runner 2099

The story takes place exactly 50 years after the events of the film Blade Runner 2049 (2017), introducing a dystopian Los Angeles dominated by androids. The plot follows Cora (Hunter Schafer), a fugitive forced to become a Blade Runner – the name given to police officers who hunt down rebel replicants.

To complete her mission, Cora must join forces with Olwen (Michelle Yeoh), a veteran Blade Runner who is also a replicant nearing the end of her lifespan. Together, they try to track down a threat that puts the city at risk of imminent destruction, while dealing with mutual distrust between humans and synthetic beings.

Star-Studded Cast and Ridley Scott as Executive Producer

With the director of the original 1982 film, Ridley Scott, serving as executive producer, the series is led by showrunners Silka Luisa, Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson. The series had been in development at the studio since 2021.

Besides Michelle Yeoh and Hunter Schafer, the cast includes Dimitri Abold (The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes), Lewis Gribben (Somewhere Boy), Daniel Rigby, Amy Lennox, Sheila Atim, Matthew Needham and Tom Burke.

The Impact of the Universe Created by Philip K. Dick

The franchise universe was born with the book Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, written by Philip K. Dick and adapted by Ridley Scott into the science-fiction cinema classic. The franchise’s “replicants” are bioengineered beings virtually identical to humans, created for slave labor in off-world colonies.