Blade Runner 2099 Trailer Reveals Replicant-Ruled Los Angeles, Yeoh and Schafer on the Run

Hunter Schafer plays Cora, a human fugitive who goes undercover as a Blade Runner. Luisa told the NYCC crowd that Olwen is supposed to be hunting human insurgents, but she is actually searching for a missing colleague named Merrick—the first time a Blade Runner has disappeared. Schafer described Cora as "more or less a fugitive in hiding from LAPD Blade Runners," whose work gets raided, forcing her to protect her younger brother and ultimately go undercover with the LAPD, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Yeoh said her character "knows the time is running out, and she’s a character that doesn’t like to leave things unfinished." Fans waiting nearly 45 years for a new chapter in the Blade Runner saga got their first extended look this weekend, as Prime Video released a new trailer and key art for Blade Runner 2099 at New York Comic Con. The story picks up 50 years after the events of Blade Runner 2049 in a reborn Los Angeles.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, showrunner Silka Luisa revealed that the replicant uprising hinted at in the films has already taken place—and humans lost. Michelle Yeoh plays Olwen, a replicant Blade Runner who is dying. The show uses blue-tinted nail beds as a visual signifier of Olwen's mortality, a detail Luisa said was inspired by Roy Batty's failing body in the original Blade Runner.

Executive producer Broderick Johnson connected the show's themes to present-day anxieties about artificial intelligence. "Sitting here this evening in October of 2026, as we’re all living in a world with the emergence of artificial intelligence, what does that mean for our future?" he said, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Luisa described the show as "the birth of a city, of a society, of our characters," and emphasized 360-degree sets with built-in lighting and moving mechanical elements to create a lived-in world.

The limited series is set to premiere November 25.