Prime Video has released the last trailer for Blade Runner 2099, and the clock on the series is now down to days. All eight episodes of the Michelle Yeoh and Hunter Schafer limited series land on the service at once on November 25, 2026.
The final trailer arrived on November 9, about a month after a full trailer debuted at New York Comic Con on October 10 and more than three months after the first teaser played in Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con in July. This one leans on the central pairing: Schafer’s Cora, a human going undercover among replicants, teamed with Yeoh’s Olwen, a replicant whose life is nearly over.
The flip that powers the show
In the 1982 film, replicants were the hunted. Showrunner Silka Luisa pitched 2099 as the reverse. By the time this story starts, an uprising has handed replicants control of Los Angeles, and humans have sunk to second-class status. Olwen is a replicant Blade Runner near the end of her lifespan. Cora is a human fugitive who poses as a replicant and partners with her to chase a gang of rogue replicants.
The first teaser set the tone with a line from Cora: “Replicants, they keep taking it all away.” Luisa has also described the look she wanted as “sunshine noir,” a deliberate break from the rain and neon that defined Ridley Scott’s original.
How 2099 fits the Blade Runner timeline
For newcomers, the franchise spans four decades of releases and nearly a century of story time:
- 1968: Philip K. Dick publishes the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, the source of it all.
- 1982: Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner reaches cinemas.
- 2017: Blade Runner 2049 continues the story.
- 2026: Blade Runner 2099 jumps 50 years past the events of 2049.
Put another way, the new show arrives 44 years after the original film and nine years after the last sequel. Alcon Entertainment, which owns the Blade Runner rights, produces it with Scott Free, Amazon MGM Studios and Sony Pictures Television, and Scott serves as an executive producer.
What took so long
Scott first said in November 2021 that a pilot and a series bible were written. The title was revealed in February 2022, and Amazon ordered a limited series that September. Filming was set for Belfast, but the 2023 writers’ strike stalled it and the production left Northern Ireland that October. Cameras finally rolled at Barrandov Studios in Prague in June 2024, with extra shooting in Barcelona, and filming wrapped in late December 2024. That is almost two years between the end of the shoot and the premiere.
Our read on the campaign
Three trailers in four months is a heavy push for an eight-episode limited series, and it tells you how much weight Prime Video is putting on a franchise that has gone nine years without a new chapter. The smart move in this final cut is leading with the Yeoh and Schafer partnership rather than flying cars. The risk is the opposite of the original’s problem: fans already know the world, so the show has to win them on the characters.
The supporting cast includes Dimitri Abold and Lewis Gribben as series regulars, with Sheila Atim, Tom Burke, Johnny Harris and Daniel Rigby among the recurring players. Jonathan van Tulleken directed the first two episodes. Prime Video says the series will stream in 240 countries and territories, starting November 25.
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