Amazon Prime Video’s Michelle Yeoh-led “Blade Runner 2099” series is set to premiere on the platform in 2026. While there was some hope it would arrive this year, the news that it will now debut next year isn’t a shock.
The news came via an internal memo at Amazon MGM Studios from Laura Lancaster, Head of US SVOD TV Development and Series – Co-Productions who was announcing two promotions.
The series was greenlit in late 2022, delayed production by almost a year due to the strikes and is currently in post-production. Jonathan van Tulleken directed the first two episodes.
Set in Los Angeles in 2099, Schafer plays a replicant named Cora (Hunter Schafer) who has lived her entire life on the run – adopting numerous identities in the process.
To secure a stable future for her brother, she assumes one final identity and is forced to partner with a Blade Runner named Olwen (Yeoh) confronting the end of her life.
The pair become caught up in a widening conspiracy that poses an existential threat to a city that’s fighting to be reborn.
Dimitri Abold, Lewis Gribben, Katelyn Rose Downey and Daniel Rigby also star while Johnny Harris, Amy Lennox, Sheila Atim, and Matthew Needham are among the recurring cast.
Silka Luisa serves as showrunner and executive produces alongside Andrew Kosove, Broderick Johnson, Ben Roberts, Ridley Scott, David W. Zucker, Clayton Krueger, Tom Spezialy, Richard Sharkey, Michael Green, Cynthia Yorkin, Frank Giustra and Isa Dick Hackett.
Source: Deadline
