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Published 18:41 25 Jul 2026 BST
Updated 18:41 25 Jul 2026 BST

Prime Video has just released the first trailer for Blade Runner 2099, its new sci-fi show serving as a sequel to the beloved movies Blade Runner (1982) and Blade Runner 2049 (2017).
This is after a war broke out between humans and their android creations (known as "replicants", with the latter coming out on top.
The show will follow Cora (Schafer), a human fugitive who, in a final bid to stop running, takes on one last identity: a Blade Runner. Within the sci-fi franchise's world, Blade Runners are police officers who hunt and "retire" (kill) rogue replicants.
Forced to partner with Olwen (Yeoh), a Replicant days from dying herself, Cora hunts down a runaway "hiding a truth that could collapse their fragile city".
First confirmed to be in the works back in 2021 by producer Ridley Scott (who directed the original Blade Runner), the Blade Runner TV show is created by Silka Luisa (Shining Girls).
Comprising eight episodes, Blade Runner 2099 will premiere on Prime Video on 25 November.
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Starring Hunter Schafer (Euphoria, The Hunger Games franchise) and the Oscar-winning Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All At Once), the follow-up series will be set in Los Angeles 50 years after the events of Blade Runner 2049, hence the title.
Alongside Schafer and Yeoh, the series' cast includes Daniel Rigby (Summerwater), Johnny Harris (Fortitude), Lewis Gribben (Mint), Matthew Needham (Napoleon), Maurizio Lombardi (Ripley), Sheila Atim (The Woman King), and Tom Burke (Legends), as well as Irish actresses Maya O'Shea (These Sacred Vows) and Katelyn Rose Downey (Clodagh).

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