Over 40 years ago, Ridley Scott and a team of visionary artists took science fiction into the future with Blade Runner. Decades later, Denis Villeneuve returned to that world in Blade Runner 2049 to see how it had evolved. Now, fifty years after the events of that film, a new series is coming to Prime Video that will transform the world of Blade Runner. Blade Runner 2099 has now been unveiled at San Diego Comic Con, and Collider’s Samantha Coley was on the scene to tell us all the details.
In Blade Runner 2099, the future humanity feared has come to pass. While once the artificial Replicants were an underclass, subject to elimination by “blade runners” like Rick Deckard, they are now the masters of the Earth. Organic humans are increasingly rare, and subject to oppression from Replicants, who are physically and intellectually superior to them in every way. Michelle Yeoh is Olwen, a Replicant who is reaching the end of her pre-programmed lifespan; like Roy Batty in the original film, her time is running out, and there is nothing she can do to forestall it. Hunter Schafer, meanwhile, is Cora, a member of the Replicants’ new society with a big secret: she’s human.
In the new trailer for the series, we return to the iconic futuristic city canyons of Blade Runner‘s Los Angeles, as well as the hovering police “spinners” designed by Syd Mead. We get an introduction to both Olwen and Cora, a Replicant and a human both facing an uncertain future, and see them forced to work together towards a common goal. However, danger lurks behind the deceptively sun-soaked facade of the new, Replicant-ruled City of Angels, and the duo are going to need all the hope they can get before their fates catch up with them. All eight episodes of the series will premiere on Prime Video on November 25.
Collider Exclusive · Sci-Fi Survival Quiz Which Sci-Fi World Would You Survive? The Matrix · Mad Max · Blade Runner · Dune · Star Wars
Five universes. Five completely different ways the future went wrong — or sideways, or up in flames. Only one of them is the world your instincts were built for. Eight questions will figure out which dystopia, galaxy, or desert wasteland you’d actually make it out of alive.
💊The Matrix
🔥Mad Max
🌧️Blade Runner
🏜️Dune
🚀Star Wars
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You sense something is deeply wrong with the world around you. What do you do? The first instinct is often the truest one.
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In a world of scarcity, what resource do you guard most fiercely? What we protect reveals what we believe survival actually requires.
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What kind of threat keeps you up at night? Fear is useful data — if you’re honest about what you’re actually afraid of.
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How do you deal with authority you don’t trust? Every dystopia has a power structure. Your approach to it determines everything.
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Which environment could you actually endure long-term? Survival isn’t just tactical — it’s physical, psychological, and very much about where you are.
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Who do you want in your corner when things fall apart? The company you keep is the clearest signal of who you actually are.
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Where do you draw the line — if you draw one at all? Every survivor eventually faces a moment that tests what they’re actually made of.
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What would actually make survival worth it? Staying alive is one thing. Having a reason to is another.
Your Fate Has Been Calculated You’d Survive In…
Your answers point to the world your instincts were built for. This is the universe your temperament, your survival instincts, and your particular brand of stubbornness were made for.
The Resistance, Zion
The Matrix
You took the red pill a long time ago — probably before anyone offered it to you. You’re a systems thinker who can’t help but notice the seams in things.
You’re drawn to understanding how the system works before figuring out how to break it.
You’d find the Resistance, or it would find you — your instinct for spotting constructed realities is the machines’ worst nightmare.
You function best when you have access to information and the freedom to act on it.
The Matrix built an airtight prison. You’d be the one probing the walls for the door.
The Wasteland
Mad Max
The wasteland doesn’t reward the clever or the well-connected — it rewards those who are hard to kill and harder to break. That’s you.
You don’t need comfort, community, or a cause larger than the next horizon.
You need a vehicle, a clear threat, and enough fuel to outrun it — and you’re good at all three.
You are unsentimental enough to survive that world, and decent enough — just barely — to be something more than another raider.
In the wasteland, that distinction is everything.
Los Angeles, 2049
Blade Runner
You’d survive here because you know how to exist in moral grey areas without losing yourself completely.
You read people accurately, keep your circle small, and ask the questions others prefer not to answer.
In a city where humanity is a legal designation rather than a feeling, you hold onto something that keeps you functional.
You’re not a hero. But you’re not lost, either.
In Blade Runner’s world, that distinction is everything.
Arrakis
Dune
Arrakis is the most hostile environment in the known universe — and you are precisely the kind of person it rewards.
Patience, discipline, and political awareness are your core strengths — and on Arrakis, they’re survival tools.
You understand that the long game matters more than any single victory.
Others come to Dune and are consumed by it. You’d learn its logic and earn its respect.
In time, you wouldn’t just survive Arrakis — you’d begin to reshape it.
A Galaxy Far, Far Away
Star Wars
The galaxy far, far away is vast, loud, and in a constant state of violent political upheaval — and you wouldn’t have it any other way.
You find meaning in being part of something larger than yourself — a cause, a crew, a rebellion.
You’d gravitate toward the Rebellion, or the fringes, or whatever pocket of the galaxy still believes the Empire’s grip can be broken.
You fight — not because you have to, but because standing aside isn’t something you’re capable of.
In Star Wars, that willingness is what makes all the difference.
Who Are the Creatives Behind ‘Blade Runner 2099’?
Blade Runner 2099 was created and showrun by Silka Luisa (Shining Girls). In addition to leads Yeoh and Schafer, the series also stars Dimitri Abold (The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes) and Lewis Gribben (Somewhere Boy). The series is based on characters and concepts from Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, the 1968 novel by Philip K. Dick, which was loosely adapted into the original Blade Runner. Scott, who directed the original film, is one of the series’ executive producers. Jonathan van Tulleken (Shogun) also executive produces, and directed the series’ first two episodes.
Blade Runner 2099 will premiere on Prime Video on November 26. Stay tuned to Collider all week for the latest San Diego Comic Con coverage.
