Blade Runner 2099 set for Prime Video premiere in 2026

Prime Video’s Blade Runner 2099, a limited series headlined by Michelle Yeoh and Hunter Schafer, is slated to premiere in 2026. The project, which first received the green light in late 2022, was pushed back by the Hollywood strikes in 2023 and remains in postproduction, with filming completed and the release now targeted for next year’s calendar. The series continues the Blade Runner universe decades after the events of the 2017 film Blade Runner 2049.

The show is produced for Amazon MGM Studios in collaboration with Alcon Entertainment and Scott Free Productions, with Silka Luisa serving as showrunner and executive producer. Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049 helped redefine the franchise for a new generation, and Blade Runner 2099 is framed as a continuation that expands the themes and world introduced across that canon. The creative team also includes Ridley Scott among the executive producers, along with a broad roster of writers, producers and collaborators associated with the saga’s ongoing development.

In the new series, Yeoh portrays Olwen, an aging replicant, and Schafer plays Cora, a character described as a skilled identity-maker who has spent her life in motion,...