Monday, October 12, 2026

Prime Video's Blade Runner 2099 looks promising as hell

With a proper trailer unveiled at New York Comic Con this past Saturday, I’m now even more stoked for Blade Runner 2099. The teaser had my attention. The trailer has my hopes up.

Blade Runner is one of those worlds whose lore and mystery still feel intact. It hasn’t suffered the same uneven treatment as the Alien franchise, where some films have chipped away at what made the original so damn compelling. From Ridley Scott’s original to Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049, we’ve had two very different films that each gave us more to wonder about. I’m hoping this series can keep that going.

What we know about the story

Set fifty years after 2049, the eight-episode limited series takes us back to a Los Angeles that humanity no longer controls. The replicant uprising happened, and humans lost. Hunter Schafer plays Cora, a fugitive who assumes the identity of a Blade Runner, while Michelle Yeoh plays Olwen, a replicant with only days left to live. They’re forced to work together, hunting a runaway carrying a secret that could bring down the city’s fragile order.

That’s a setup with promising potential.

Behind the scenes, Shining Girls creator Silka Luisa is the showrunner, with Ridley Scott and 2049 co-writer Michael Green among the executive producers. The brilliant Jonathan van Tulleken, who directed the opening episodes of Shōgun, directs the first two here. Need I say more? 

Between that team, the cast, and what we’ve seen so far, the franchise looks to be in solid hands.

Of course, a damn good trailer is still just a trailer. 

Only time will tell whether the series delivers. 

But November 25th, when all eight episodes arrive on Prime Video, can’t come soon enough.

For those who missed the July teaser, here it is...


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