‘Blade Runner 2099’ Trailer Unites Michelle Yeoh and Hunter Schafer

Prime Video has opened a much wider window onto Blade Runner 2099, unveiling a new trailer at New York Comic Con that pairs Michelle Yeoh and Hunter Schafer in a mystery built around missing Replicants. The eight-episode limited series will arrive in full on November 25, giving viewers the complete story at once rather than following a weekly rollout.

A new Blade Runner in a rebuilt Los Angeles

The series takes place 50 years after Blade Runner 2049. Schafer plays Cora, a fugitive who assumes one final identity: a Blade Runner. Her assignment forces her to work with Yeoh’s Olwen, a Replicant approaching the end of her life, as they pursue a runaway carrying information that could destabilize their city.

The latest footage adds sharper stakes to that setup. Olwen says 28 Replicants—10 women and 18 men—have disappeared within a year, while the trailer introduces a figure who may possess a cure for all Replicants. That promise gives the familiar franchise conflict over manufactured life a more urgent survival angle.

The franchise moves to television

Silka Luisa created the series and serves as showrunner and executive producer. Ridley Scott is among the executive producers, while Jonathan van Tulleken directed the first two episodes. The supporting cast includes Dimitri Abold, Lewis Gribben, Matthew Needham, Katelyn Rose Downey, Daniel Rigby, Johnny Harris, Amy Lennox, Sheila Atim, Tom Burke and Maurizio Lombardi.

The television chapter extends a world that began with Scott’s 1982 film and continued with Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049 in 2017. Rather than simply returning to the earlier films’ characters, the new series appears designed around a fresh partnership and a new question: what happens when Replicants are not only hunted, but offered the possibility of escaping their built-in mortality?

The trailer’s combination of noir investigation, political instability and a potentially transformative discovery suggests that Blade Runner 2099 is using the franchise’s visual language to stage a distinctly television-sized conspiracy. Its all-at-once release will let audiences judge in November whether that mystery can sustain eight episodes.