{"id":370118,"date":"2026-10-11T01:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T01:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/370118\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T01:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T01:42:11","slug":"blade-runner-2099-cast-previews-the-limited-series-at-new-york-comic-con","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/370118\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Blade Runner 2099\u2019 Cast Previews The Limited Series At New York Comic Con"},"content":{"rendered":"

Attendees at New York Comic Con<\/a> got a new trailer and four never-before-seen clips from Prime Video’s highly anticipated limited series Blade Runner 2099, starring Michelle Yeoh and Hunter Schafer.<\/p>\n

At the show’s panel on Saturday at NYCC’s Empire Stage, Yeoh (Olwen) and Schafer (Cora) teased what to expect alongside co-stars Dimitri Abold, Lewis Gribben, and Matthew Needham; showrunner, creator, and executive producer Silka Luisa; and executive producers Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson.<\/p>\n

During the panel, the cast and creatives spoke with reverence and admiration about the franchise’s previous installments: Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner and Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049.<\/p>\n

“I think it changed sci-fi as a genre,” Schafer said of the franchise.<\/p>\n

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Hunter Schafer as Cora on “Blade Runner 2099.”<\/p>\n

Blade Runner 2099 is set after Blade Runner 2049, in a world where an uprising has occurred and replicants have surpassed humans as the dominant species.<\/p>\n

“The creations have surpassed their creators,” Luisa said, adding that the series takes place at a “junction point, when one species and a new one is rising.”<\/p>\n

With the replicants in power, Schafer’s on-the-run human Cora goes undercover as a Blade Runner with the LAPD, opposite Olwen, a replicant grappling with her own mortality. Yeoh expressed her enthusiasm for playing a replicant rather than a human and joked about trying to keep up with her frequent scene partner, Schafer. She also discussed the complexity of playing a character who goes from accepting her impending death to actively fighting it for reasons the show will reveal.<\/p>\n

Johnson described the show as “Departed in the world of Blade Runner,” explaining that Cora and Olwen’s dynamic is at the heart of the story. Needham, who called his character a “junior partner” stuck in Olwen’s shadow, added that the show is a detective story with “a really exciting, beautiful mystery at the heart of it.”<\/p>\n

The Blade Runner franchise is known for its visuals, and the Blade Runner 2099 showrunner said the show’s aesthetic drew inspiration from the premise.<\/p>\n

“The show is really about a birth. It’s about the birth of a city, of a society, of our characters, and it’s really the dawn of this new era,” Luisa said. “And when I think of a birth, I think hot, sticky, bright, chaotic \u2014 and that’s where the environment came from.”<\/p>\n

Four clips of the show were unveiled, touching on different character dynamics and storylines that will probably make a lot more sense once the show airs (like the significance of a Red Light District that sells human experiences to replicants who long for a life they can’t have).<\/p>\n

The Blade Runner 2099 crew wrapped up their panel by debuting a new trailer<\/a> for the sci-fi series. All eight episodes of Blade Runner 2099 will premiere on Prime Video on November 25.<\/p>\n

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