Amazon has set the Blade Runner 2099 release date for November 25, when the sequel series will arrive on Prime Video with all eight episodes available at once. The company also released the show’s first trailer, putting Michelle Yeoh and Hunter Schafer at the center of its latest attempt to extend the franchise beyond film.
The series is titled for its place in the timeline. According to Amazon, Blade Runner 2099 is set 50 years after the events of Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049, which itself followed Ridley Scott’s original Blade Runner. That puts the new show in the familiar future Los Angeles of the franchise, with the trailer leaning into rain-soaked dystopia, grave narration, and the kind of heavy coats that apparently survive every era of synthetic-human misery.
When is Blade Runner 2099 coming out?
Blade Runner 2099 premieres November 25 on Amazon’s Prime Video, according to Amazon. The company is using a binge-release model for the season, meaning all eight episodes will be available on the same day rather than rolling out weekly.
Silka Luisa is leading the series after previously serving as showrunner on Apple TV’s adaptation of Shining Girls. Ridley Scott, who directed the 1982 film, is attached as an executive producer. Amazon’s cast list includes Yeoh and Schafer, with the company identifying their characters as Olwen and Cora in promotional materials.
Amazon’s official description gives the show a fugitive-and-partner setup. Cora is on the run and takes on one more identity as a Blade Runner, according to the company. She is paired with Olwen, a Replicant nearing the end of her life, and the two pursue a runaway whose secret could threaten the city.
For anyone who has managed to avoid four decades of franchise vocabulary, a Blade Runner is a hunter of Replicants, the bioengineered people whose rights, memories, and mortality sit at the center of the series’ grim machinery. The franchise usually gets its mileage from making that job morally radioactive, then making the city look expensive while everyone feels terrible about it.
Amazon first disclosed in 2022 that it was developing a Blade Runner television project. The November premiere gives the company a major science-fiction property heading into the end of the year, and it arrives while another canonical cyberpunk text is also moving toward television: Apple is working on an adaptation of William Gibson’s Neuromancer.
The first trailer is available now. Amazon has not provided more episode-specific plot details beyond the eight-episode count, the premiere date, and the official premise.
This story draws on original reporting from The Verge.
