Featured image: Michelle Yeoh. Photo: Harald Krichel / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Lowdown
Blade Runner has always worked best as a slow, sad detective story, and pairing a dying replicant with a fugitive posing as a Blade Runner fits that. Yeoh carries that kind of weight easily. The real question is whether TV can match the look Villeneuve set in 2049.
Key Takeaways
- Hunter Schafer and Michelle Yeoh showed a new trailer and key art for Blade Runner 2099 at New York Comic Con (Rotten Tomatoes).
- Yeoh plays Olwen, a replicant days from dying; Schafer plays Cora, a fugitive who takes on a Blade Runner identity (Hypertext).
- The series is set 50 years after Blade Runner 2049 and streams on Prime Video from November 25 (Hypertext).
The Story
Prime Video’s Blade Runner 2099 brought its stars to New York Comic Con on October 10. Hunter Schafer and Michelle Yeoh showed a new trailer and key art and shared production stories (Rotten Tomatoes).
Per the official description, the series is set 50 years after Blade Runner 2049 in a Los Angeles that “has been reborn, just not by humanity.” Cora, a fugitive, takes on one last identity as a Blade Runner and partners with Olwen, a replicant days from dying, to hunt a runaway who is hiding a dangerous truth (Hypertext).
Yeoh joked about her co-star on stage: “It’s hard to be opposite someone so gorgeous,” adding that keeping up with her was tough “because we had a lot of running in the show” (Rotten Tomatoes).
Blade Runner 2099 premieres on Prime Video on November 25 (Hypertext).
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More Context
- Rotten Tomatoes — Everything We Learned At New York Comic Con ↗
- Hypertext — The best trailers from New York Comic Con 2026 ↗