Overview
- Prime Video will release all eight episodes of Blade Runner 2099 on Nov. 25, with production complete and the promotional campaign moving into its final phase.
- Showrunner Silka Luisa told SFX Magazine that the series is not directly tied to Blade Runner 2049 and was deliberately designed so viewers can watch it without prior knowledge of the films.
- A final trailer released this week emphasizes violent replicant uprisings, a city run by replicants and a central partnership between Olwen, a replicant Blade Runner played by Michelle Yeoh, and Cora, a human played by Hunter Schafer.
- The project is led by creator‑showrunner Silka Luisa and lists Ridley Scott’s Scott Free among its executive producers, with a broad supporting cast announced in promotional materials.
- The series builds on the Blade Runner franchise but was shaped by recent industry delays and a production move from Belfast to Prague, and Denis Villeneuve is not creatively involved in the show.