Prime Video premiered a new trailer for “Blade Runner 2099” at New York Comic Con.
The limited series is set 50 years after the events of “Blade Runner 2049” in a reborn Los Angeles. Fugitive Cora (Hunter Schafer) takes on a final identity as a Blade Runner and is forced to partner with Olwen (Michelle Yeoh), a near-death Replicant, to hunt down a runaway hiding the truth that could collapse the city.
“Blade Runner 2099” stars Yeoh and Schafer, with Dimitri Abold and Lewis Gribben as series regulars. Katelyn Rose Downey, Daniel Rigby, Johnny Harris, Amy Lennox, Sheila Atim, Matthew Needham, Tom Burke and Maurizio Lombardi are recurring guest stars.
The “Blade Runner” franchise is based on Philip K. Dick’s 1968 novel “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” The first film adaptation, directed by Ridley Scott and starring Harrison Ford, released in 1982. “Blade Runner 2049,” helmed by “Dune” director Denis Villeneuve, premiered in 2017, with Ford reprising his role from the original film.
Silka Luisa is showrunner, creator and executive producer. Ridley Scott, Alcon Entertainment co-founders Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson, Alcon’s President of Television Ben Roberts, Steven Johnson, David W. Zucker and Clayton Krueger from Scott Free Productions, Richard Sharkey, Tom Spezialy, Michael Green, Cynthia Yorkin, Frank Giustra, Tim Gable, and Isa Dick Hackett serve as executive producers. Jonathan van Tulleken is an executive producer and directed the first two episodes.
All eight episodes of “Blade Runner 2099” premiere Nov. 25 on Prime Video. Watch the trailer below.
From Variety US
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