Blade Runner 2099 Team Previews Prime Video Series Ahead of November 25 Debut
Showrunner Silka Luisa and star Hunter Schafer discussed the limited series at the WIRED World Fair, detailing its replicant-run world and timeline.
Showrunner Silka Luisa and star Hunter Schafer discussed Prime Video's limited series Blade Runner 2099 at the WIRED World Fair, ahead of its premiere on November 25. According to WIRED, the pair outlined the show's setting and characters during the event.
The series is set 80 years after the original Blade Runner and 50 years after Blade Runner 2049. It follows a replicant Blade Runner named Olwen, played by Michelle Yeoh, who searches for rogue agents. Hunter Schafer plays Cora, a human pretending to be a replicant in order to survive.
The show depicts a world in which replicants run society and attempt to rehabilitate the planet from ecological collapse.
Schafer said the action scenes were physically demanding and praised Michelle Yeoh as a scene partner.
Earlier films in the franchise
Ridley Scott's Blade Runner was released in 1982, adapted from Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Denis Villeneuve directed the sequel Blade Runner 2049, which was released in 2017.
Quick answers
When does Blade Runner 2099 premiere?
The Prime Video limited series premieres on November 25.
When is Blade Runner 2099 set?
It is set 80 years after the original Blade Runner and 50 years after Blade Runner 2049.
Who stars in Blade Runner 2099?
Michelle Yeoh plays the replicant Blade Runner Olwen, and Hunter Schafer plays Cora, a human pretending to be a replicant.