Hunter Schafer puts Blade Runner 2099 on a firm date. Prime Video dropped the first trailer at Comic-Con in Hall H and set the limited series to begin streaming on November 25.
That rollout covers 240 countries and territories, which turns a franchise preview into a global release plan instead of a narrow genre tease. The trailer also makes Schafer’s Cora the center of the series, with Michelle Yeoh as Olwen beside her.
Hunter Schafer as Cora
Schafer appears as Cora, a human fugitive who takes on one last identity as a Blade Runner. In the trailer, she says, "Replicants, they keep taking it all away," and later asks, "How much longer until we have nothing? Until we are nothing?"
Those lines set the series up as more than a revisit to Blade Runner 2049. Cora is not being written as a simple law officer or a simple rebel; she is forced into a role that already carries the franchise’s authority structure, which gives the character a built-in conflict before the plot even starts.
Michelle Yeoh’s Olwen
Yeoh plays Olwen, a Replicant days from dying. The trailer places her against Cora in a city that has just been reborn, but not by humanity, and that is the sharper hook here: the story is built around a human-versus-replicant struggle while Cora must also partner with Olwen.
That pairing complicates the premise in a useful way. If the series leans only on combat, it will feel thin; if it leans into the uneasy dependence between Cora and Olwen, Blade Runner 2099 has a cleaner path to carrying the franchise’s ideas into a new format.
Ridley Scott and Alcon Entertainment
Scott is among the executive producers, and Alcon Entertainment is producing the limited series. Jonathan van Tulleken directed the first two episodes, which should give the opening stretch a consistent visual and tonal shape before the story settles into its larger arc.
Dimitri Abold and Lewis Gribben are series regulars, while Katelyn Rose Downey, Daniel Rigby, Johnny Harris, Amy Lennox, Sheila Atim, Matthew Needham, Tom Burke and Maurizio Lombardi are recurring guest stars. For viewers, the practical takeaway is simple: Blade Runner 2099 now has a date, a trailer, and a global launch window, even if the series structure still leaves the release pattern unresolved.
