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Prime Video unveils Blade Runner 2099 full trailer at NYCC

Prime Video released a full trailer for its upcoming science fiction series *Blade Runner 2099* at New York Comic-Con. The streamer revealed the footage with the show's premiere arriving in roughly six weeks.

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Prime Video released a full trailer for its upcoming science fiction series *Blade Runner 2099* at New York Comic-Con. The streamer revealed the footage with the show's premiere arriving in roughly six weeks. Co-stars Michelle Yeoh and Hunter Schafer joined showrunner Silka Luisa onstage during a Saturday night panel to discuss the project.

Luisa told the audience that the series takes place 50 years after the events of *Blade Runner 2049*. In this timeline, a replicant uprising has occurred and humans have lost, marking a junction point where human existence ends and a new species rises. Yeoh stars as a dying replicant named Olwen, while Schafer plays a character named Cora.

The series shifts the franchise's central theme of mortality from a personal struggle into a societal question about a species facing extinction. The cast also features Hugo Hamlet as Buster Friendly alongside numerous actors in undisclosed roles.

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Original author: Jennifer Ouellette

Original publication: 11 October 2026 20:20

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