‘Blade Runner 2099’ Drops New Trailer, Team Teases a Detective Story Set When Replicants Take Over
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Prime Video has released a new trailer for *Blade Runner 2099*, with the cast and creative team outlining a detective mystery set after replicants have taken control. The limited series extends the franchise’s questions about mortality and identity to a world where humanity is no longer the dominant species.
The story follows Olwen, a replicant Blade Runner who is meant to pursue human insurgents but is secretly searching for a missing colleague. Hunter Schafer’s character is a fugitive who goes undercover with the LAPD, while Michelle Yeoh plays a dying character marked by blue-like nail beds. Set 50 years after *Blade Runner 2049*, the series depicts the aftermath of a replicant uprising in which humans have lost.
- The new series is set 50 years after *Blade Runner 2049*.
- Replicants have taken control and humans have lost.
- Olwen’s search for a missing colleague drives the mystery.
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Blade Runner is a science fiction franchise that began with the 1982 film of the same name, exploring a dystopian future where artificial humans called replicants are manufactured for labour and military purposes. The original films followed Blade Runners, human hunters tasked with tracking down and eliminating rogue replicants. The central question of the franchise has always been whether these artificial beings deserve rights and freedom.
The forthcoming limited series Blade Runner 2099 is set fifty years after the most recent film and imagines a radically different world. Here, replicants have risen up and successfully overthrown human rule, becoming the dominant species whilst some humans have become fugitives and insurgents. The story follows Olwen, a replicant Blade Runner who begins to question her role after investigating the disappearance of a colleague.
The new series represents an expansion of the film franchise into television format. Unlike the earlier films, which centred on humans attempting to eliminate rogue replicants, this story takes place in a world where replicants have won control and humans are now hunted. The series will explore themes of mortality, identity and social change in this reimagined world.