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The "Blade Runner" franchise is making its live-action return after nine years since "Blade Runner 2049" with the upcoming series "Blade Runner 2099." After releasing its first batch of stills yesterday, the series followed up with its debut trailer early this morning.
Silka Luisa, known for creating the Apple TV+ series "Shining Girls," serves as writer and executive producer for "Blade Runner 2099." Ridley Scott, who directed the original "Blade Runner" film, also returns as an executive producer. The cast features "Euphoria" star Hunter Schafer, Oscar-winning actress Michelle Yeoh, and Tom Burke, known for his role in "Strike."
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This series marks the second spin-off show in the franchise, following "Blade Runner: Black Lotus." The story is set fifty years after "Blade Runner 2049," in a future where the war between replicants and humans has concluded with replicants victorious, leaving humans as second-class citizens.
Michelle Yeoh portrays Owyn, a replicant Blade Runner with only days left to live, who is on the hunt for a group of missing rogue replicants. Schafer plays Cora, Owyn's human fugitive partner, who has spent most of her life evading Blade Runners. Now, she must not only collaborate with a Blade Runner but also impersonate one. "Blade Runner 2099" is scheduled to premiere on Amazon Prime Video on November 25.