Prime Video Releases Final Trailer for Blade Runner 2099

Prime Video has released the final trailer for Blade Runner 2099, its eight-episode science-fiction series scheduled to premiere November 25. The story is set in Los Angeles 50 years after the events of Blade Runner 2049, in a city where replicants hold power and humans are second-class citizens.

The series stars Michelle Yeoh as Olwen, a replicant Blade Runner nearing the end of her life, and Hunter Schafer as Cora, a human fugitive. In the series description, Cora takes on the identity of a Blade Runner and joins Olwen in a search for missing or runaway replicants. The trailer offers a further look at the partnership and the dangers surrounding it, but does not disclose the truth at the center of the search.

Showrunner Silka Luisa has described the changed order as the result of a replicant uprising between the events of the two films. She said replicants became the city’s power brokers and humans were relegated to second-class status. That fictional history forms the backdrop for Cora and Olwen’s investigation, although the reports do not reveal how the missing replicants or the hidden truth threaten the city.

Olwen’s limited time is central to her character. Luisa said...