As expected, Amazon has revealed the first teaser trailer and the premiere date for its highly anticipated sci-fi series ‘Blade Runner 2099’ at San Diego Comic Con this Friday. The eight-episode limited series ‘Blade Runner 2099’ will be released on November 25, 2026, on Prime Video.
The teaser trailer opens on sweeping, atmospheric vistas of a reborn Los Angeles in the year 2099. Silhouetted industrial towers and sprawling megastructures rise against a hazy, glowing orange sky, with spinner-like flying vehicles gliding through the polluted air amid a mix of warm golden light and the franchise’s classic neon-soaked cyberpunk grit. The visuals shift between sunlit coastal and industrial zones and darker, steam-filled alleys, suggesting a city that has been reshaped after a major upheaval. Over these establishing shots, Hunter Schafer’s character Cora delivers a somber voiceover monologue: “We already fought a war. We lost. Replicants. They keep taking it all away. How much longer until we have nothing? Until we are nothing.” The narration underscores a world in which humans have been defeated and relegated to a subordinate status, while replicants hold power.
Intercut with the dialogue are dynamic sequences of action and tension. Michelle Yeoh appears as the determined replicant Blade Runner Olwen, striding purposefully through foggy industrial corridors accompanied by two male companions. A high-stakes chase or escape unfolds as a figure in a green jumpsuit leaps or falls from a multi-level concrete structure, arms outstretched, while onlookers watch from above. Violent confrontations erupt in shadowed interiors, with one character slammed against a wall amid dramatic lighting and hints of struggle. Dark passageways reveal mysterious figures and glowing equipment, while a stark red-lit expanse of towering structures and flying sparks evokes a fiery, almost apocalyptic landscape. Intense close-ups capture emotional or strained expressions under neon glow, including a long-haired figure in a dimly lit, colorful environment.
A pivotal quieter moment shows Olwen examining a seated or reclining Cora under harsh surgical lights, gently touching her face and chin in what appears to be an identity verification or intimate inspection. Olwen then speaks: “The old world forever fights to come back. Humans want what was taken from them. But it’s our time now.” The teaser closes with the tagline “Welcome to a future we no longer control.” Overall, the roughly one-minute-forty-eight-second trailer establishes a reversed power dynamic fifty years after the events of Blade Runner 2049, introducing the unlikely partnership between a human fugitive forced to assume a final false identity as a Blade Runner and a dying replicant enforcer, as they become entangled in a conspiracy threatening the fragile new order of the city.
As the name suggests, ‘Blade Runner 2099’ will be set 50 years after the events of the 2017 movie Blade Runner 2049. The series is reportedly set in Los Angeles 2099, where Cora, played by Hunter Schafer, has spent her whole life on the run, a chameleon forced to assume many identities. To ensure a stable future for her brother, she adopts one more identity and is compelled to work alongside Olwen (Michelle Yeoh), a Blade Runner nearing the end of her life. The two are drawn into a growing conspiracy that poses an existential danger to a city striving for its revival.
The cast of the series also includes Dimitri Abold and Lewis Gribben as series regulars, while Tom Burke, Katelyn Rose Downey, Daniel Rigby, Johnny Harris, Amy Lennox, Sheila Atim, Maurizio Lombardi, Matthew Needham, and Hugo Hamlet are in recurring roles.
Silka Luisa serves as showrunner and executive producer on the limited series Blade Runner 2099, joined by Ridley Scott, Alcon Entertainment co-founders Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson, Alcon’s President of Television Ben Roberts, Scott Free Productions’ David W. Zucker and Clayton Krueger, Tom Spezialy, Richard Sharkey, Michael Green, Cynthia Yorkin, Frank Giustra, and Isa Dick Hackett. Jonathan van Tulleken (Shōgun) is also an executive producer and directed the first two episodes, with Steven Johnson serving as co-executive producer.