Los Angeles has new rulers, and they just got a poster. Prime Video released the official key art for Blade Runner 2099 on Monday, one month ahead of the limited series premiere on Wednesday, November 25.
Schafer stands front and center as Cora, with Yeoh’s Olwen over her shoulder, blaster in hand, and the rest of the cast fanned out beneath them. Flying spinners cut through the rain above a city split between cold blue and burning orange, and the title lands in big red block letters above the words that matter most: new limited series, November 25.
The series is set 50 years after Blade Runner 2049. The replicant uprising that simmered beneath the films has happened, and the humans lost. Los Angeles has been reborn under replicant rule, and the humans who remain live as second-class citizens on the fringes of their own city.
Cora is a fugitive who has spent her life running, and her final bid to stop is a bold one: she takes on one last identity, a Blade Runner. She is forced to partner with Olwen, a replicant who has only days left to live, and together they hunt a runaway who is hiding a truth that could collapse their fragile city. The trailers have added one more thread to the case: replicants have been going missing across the city over the past year, and the two partners are the ones sent to find out why.
Prime Video gave the series its biggest showcase yet at New York Comic Con earlier this month, where Yeoh and Schafer joined showrunner Silka Luisa on stage. Watch the trailer from that panel here:
Around Yeoh and Schafer, the cast includes Dimitri Abold, Lewis Gribben, Katelyn Rose Downey, Daniel Rigby, Johnny Harris, Amy Lennox, Sheila Atim, Matthew Needham, Tom Burke and Maurizio Lombardi.
The series comes from creator and showrunner Silka Luisa, whose credits include Shining Girls. Ridley Scott, who directed the original Blade Runner in 1982, is an executive producer, and Jonathan van Tulleken (Shogun) directed the first two episodes. Luisa has said the eight episodes tell a complete story, in keeping with the limited series format.
All eight episodes of Blade Runner 2099 arrive at once on Wednesday, November 25, on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories. Anyone who wants to revisit the story first can stream Blade Runner: The Final Cut and Blade Runner 2049 on Prime Video now.