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The Future’s Bright in Blade Runner 2099’s Debut Trailer | Comic Con 2026
Prime Video has unveiled the first trailer for *Blade Runner 2099* at San Diego Comic-Con 2026 and confirmed that the eight-episode series will launch on 25 November 2026. Set 50 years after *Blade Runner 2049*, it depicts a Los Angeles where replicants have won an uprising and humans have become second-class citizens, extending the franchise’s themes of identity, power and social inequality.
Hunter Schafer plays Cora, a human fugitive posing as a Blade Runner, who teams up with Michelle Yeoh’s dying replicant Blade Runner, Olwen, to find a runaway replicant whose secret could destabilise the city. The trailer retains the franchise’s cyberpunk imagery of towering adverts, neon and flying vehicles, but presents a sunnier cityscape than earlier films; Ridley Scott is an executive producer alongside showrunner Silka Luisa.
In short
- *Blade Runner 2099* arrives on Prime Video on 25 November 2026.
- Replicants rule Los Angeles after defeating humans in an uprising.
- Hunter Schafer and Michelle Yeoh lead the eight-episode series.
Explained simply
Blade Runner is a science fiction franchise set in a future Los Angeles where artificial beings called replicants coexist with humans. The original films examined questions about consciousness, identity and power, asking who controls society and who is treated as expendable.
The new series, Blade Runner 2099, is set fifty years later and depicts a reversed world. Replicants have successfully rebelled against human rule and now dominate society, with humans reduced to second-class status. The story follows Cora, a human fugitive disguised as a Blade Runner law enforcement officer, as she works with Olwen, an ageing replicant Blade Runner, to find a runaway replicant whose discovery threatens the city's stability.
By inverting the power structure, the series explores these themes from a new angle, examining what happens when the formerly subjugated become the ruling class. The project brings together filmmaker Ridley Scott, who directed the original Blade Runner, as executive producer, and Silka Luisa as showrunner.