We’ve long known that Blade Runner 2099 will advance the franchise to its next inevitable place: Replicants are now the dominant class, with humanity struggling to survive. And we’ve known that we’ll meet a human named Cora (Hunter Schafer) who will pretend to be a replicant so convincingly she’ll become a Blade Runner alongside a veteran named Olwen (Michelle Yeoh). But the just-released final Blade Runner 2099 trailer gives us our best look yet at the tensions that push Cora into her dangerous undercover life.
“Fifty years after the events of Blade Runner 2049, Los Angeles has been reborn, just not by humanity,” reads the official Prime Video description. “Cora, a fugitive in a final bid to stop running, takes on one last identity: a Blade Runner. Forced to partner with Olwen, a Replicant days from dying, she hunts down a runaway hiding a truth that could collapse their fragile city.”
It’s especially intriguing how Blade Runner 2099 is leaning into tropes that play up the “noir” part of Blade Runner‘s tradition of sci-fi noir, especially in the contrasting characters of a desperate fugitive and a seasoned pro taking on one last job.
What could the hidden truth be? And what might it mean for the future of not just Blade Runner 2099 but the Blade Runner series itself? The reveal in Blade Runner 2049 that Rachael from the first Blade Runner movie—the Replicant who didn’t realize she wasn’t human—had given birth to Deckard’s daughter was quite monumental, so it’s likely to be something on that level that the series can tease across eight episodes.
Along with Schafer and Yeoh, series regulars include Dimitri Abold and Lewis Gribben. Recurring guest stars are Katelyn Rose Downey, Daniel Rigby, Johnny Harris, Amy Lennox, Sheila Atim, Matthew Needham (House of the Dragon‘s slippery Larys Strong), Tom Burke, and Maurizio Lombardi. Silka Luisa is the showrunner, creator, and one of the show’s executive producers; Blade Runner OG Ridley Scott is also an executive producer.
Blade Runner 2099 premieres November 25 on Prime Video.
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