At last, here’s the first look at Amazon MGM Studios’ live action TV series take on Blade Runner.
The company unveiled a teaser trailer (below) for the project at San Diego Comic-Con on Friday.
Blade Runner 2099 has been in the works for five years from showrunner Silka Luisa (Shining Girls) and stars Michelle Yeoh and Hunter Schafer as co-leads, along with Dimitri Abold, Matthew Needham, Daniel Rigby, Lewis Gribben and others.
The official description: “Fifty years after the events of Blade Runner 2049, Los Angeles has been reborn, just not by humanity. 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.”
The limited series will consist of eight episodes and premiere Nov. 25, 2026.
Until now, the project has been keep rather mysterious under wraps.
Director Ridley Scott launched the franchise in 1982 with the acclaimed Blade Runner, which told the story of a dystopic future Los Angeles where a cop (Harrison Ford) hunted rogue androids, called Replicants. The film was based on Philip K. Dick’s 1968 novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
A Scott-produced 2017 sequel, Blade Runner 2049, was directed by Denis Villeneuve and starred Ryan Gosling and Ford.