Hunter Schafer Stars In First Trailer For Blade Runner 2099 Limited Series

Amazon has dropped the first trailer for the Prime Video science-fiction limited series Blade Runner 2099.

The show stars Hunter Schafer and Michelle Yeoh in the first live-action TV show instalment of the Blade Runner saga. It takes place “Fifty years after the events of Blade Runner 2049, Los Angeles has been reborn, just not by humanity. Cora (Schafer), a fugitive in a final bid to stop running, takes on one last identity: a Blade Runner. Forced to partner with Olwen (Yeoh), a Replicant days from dying, she hunts down a runaway hiding a truth that could collapse their fragile city.”

The show, which will intentionally only run for one season, is being hailed by the showrunner Silka Luisa, whose other projects include the Apple TV series Shining Girls, as well as the live-action Halo show. She will also act as co-writer and executive producer for this science-fiction tale.

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Starring alongside our main duo as series regulars are Dimitri Abold (The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes) and Lewis Gribben (Somewhere Boy). 

Katelyn Rose Downey (The Nun II), Daniel Rigby (Renegade Nell), Johnny Harris (“A Gentleman in Moscow”), Amy Lennox (Only Child), Sheila Atim (The Woman King), Matthew Needham (House of the Dragon), Tom Burke (Furiosa) and Maurizio Lombardi (Ripley) are coming in as recurring guest stars.

The original Blade Runner film was released in 1982 and directed by Ridley Scott, who will serve as executive producer on the show. A subsequent sequel was released in 2017, Blade Runner 2049, but this time directed by Denis Villeneuve. 

All eight episodes of Blade Runner 2099 will premiere on Prime Video on November 25th. 

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