Prime Video will premiere the limited series Blade Runner 2099 in 2026. The series stars Hunter Schafer as Cora and features Michelle Yeoh as a replicant facing the end of her life. The story follows two replicants and a conspiracy that threatens Los Angeles' rebirth. The series follows the cinematic timeline of Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049, both based on Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?. Cast also includes Wil Coban, Lewis Gribben, and Dimitri Abold. Themes include marginalisation and allegories of queer life as replicants confront identity and discrimination.
The show is a follow-up to Blade Runner 2049, which is itself a sequel to Ridley Scott's 1982 ground-breaking original. All are based on Philip K Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? first published in 1968. Some people have viewed the films as allegories of queer life. Both involved marginalised individuals facing discrimination for trying to live their truth.
Trans star Shafer is set to be seen as Cora in the new mini-series. She's joined by Everything Everywhere All at Once and Wicked star Michelle Yeoh as a replicant facing the end of her life. The show is said to follow two replicants and a conspiracy that threatens Los Angeles' rebirth. Also among the cast list is Wil Coban, seen recently in George Clooney's 1936 Olympics drama Boys in the Boat, and in Zack Snyder's Justice League.
Blade Runner followed Rick Deckard, a former police officer turned special agent played by Harrison Ford, sent to destroy illegal replicants. However, when he meets Rachel, a replicant unaware of her identity, he falls in love. In Blade Runner 2049, an LA police officer ( Ryan Gosling) unearthed a long-buried secret and went in search of Deckard, who has been missing for more than 30 years, for help.
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