“Are you a good or evil human?” It is an unsettling question that opens the final Italian trailer of Blade Runner 2099, the new Prime Video miniseries poised to bring viewers back into the sci-fi universe born from ‘s vision. The streaming service unveiled the final official trailer, offering one last glimpse of a story that promises to explore new balances between humans and Replicants, fifty years after the events of Blade Runner 2049. All eight episodes of the miniseries arrive on streaming November 25, 2026.
Blade Runner 2099: what the final trailer shows
With Michelle Yeoh and Hunter Schafer in the leading roles, the series is set to broaden the imagination of one of the most influential sci-fi sagas of all time, while preserving its dark atmospheres, philosophical reflections, and questions about identity and the nature of humanity. The new trailer introduces a future in which humanity seems to have definitively lost control of its own fate. Los Angeles has risen from its ashes, but this time the reconstruction has not been guided by human beings. Dominating the new order are the Replicants, the artificial beings who for decades lived in a subordinate position to their creators. Among the trailer’s most meaningful lines is also what appears to be a warning: “Whatever you can build, you can also destroy.” We understand, therefore, that there will be consequences for a power balance that is as new as it is fragile.
The plot of Blade Runner 2099: a Los Angeles in the hands of the Replicants
Blade Runner 2099 is set fifty years after the events recounted in Blade Runner 2049, the film directed by Denis Villeneuve in 2017. The world has changed profoundly and Los Angeles has managed to be reborn, but not thanks to human intervention. The Replicants have seized a dominant position and have become the protagonists of rebuilding society. A transformation that opens unprecedented scenarios for the saga’s universe and upends the balance of power between creators and creatures. In this context moves Cora, played by Hunter Schafer, a fugitive who desperately tries to leave her past behind. To succeed, she decides to take on one last identity, posing as a Blade Runner. A risky choice that drags her into a dangerous reality, where hiding her true nature becomes essential for survival. Her path intersects with that of Olwen, played by Michelle Yeoh, a Replicant who has only a few days left to live. The two women are forced to collaborate to track down a fugitive who holds a secret potentially capable of collapsing the entire balance of the city. The trailer also hints at the possibility of a cure for the Replicants, opening new questions about the desire to extend life and to definitively overcome the limits imposed by nature.
The rest of the cast and the production team
Aside from Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All at Once) and Hunter Schafer (Euphoria), the main cast includes Dimitri Abold, already seen in The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, and Lewis Gribben, known for the series Somewhere Boy. Among the recurring guest stars are Katelyn Rose Downey (The Nun II), Daniel Rigby (Nell – Renegade), Johnny Harris (A Gentleman in Moscow), Amy Lennox (Only Child), Sheila Atim (The Woman King), Matthew Needham (House of the Dragon), Tom Burke (Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga) and Italian actor Maurizio Lombardi, already acclaimed in the series Ripley.
At the helm of the project is Silka Luisa, creator and showrunner of the miniseries, as well as executive producer. The directing of the first two episodes has been entrusted to Jonathan van Tulleken, who has previously directed for Shōgun. Among the executive producers stand out Ridley Scott, the director of the original film from 1982, joined by Michael Green, co-screenwriter of Blade Runner 2049, and the Alcon Entertainment co-founders Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson.
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