When Ridley Scott released Blade Runnerinto the world back in 1982, to say it earned an underwhelming response would be a bit of an understatement. Star Harrison Ford was coming off of titles like Star Wars: A New Hopeand Raiders of the Lost Ark, and while those were crowd-pleasing spectacles, Blade Runner was a much darker and noir-inspired experience that didn’t have the best opinions of humanity, resulting in disappointing critical reviews and a poor box-office performance.
Anyone familiar with Philip K. Dick’s 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?wasn’t surprised by Scott’s adaptation, but audiences at large and critics didn’t fully connect with the narrative. Slowly but surely, audiences reevaluated the movie to realize it as one of the most inventive and ambitious sci-fi movies of the ’80s, with it now being regarded as a high point of the genre.
The legacy of Blade Runner continues in the new Prime Video series Blade Runner 2099, which has just released a final trailer. Check out the trailer below before all eight episodes of the new series hits the streamer on November 25.
50 years after the events of Blade Runner 2049, Los Angeles has been reborn, just not by humanity. Cora, a fugitive in a final bid to stop running, takes on one last identity: a Blade Runner. Forced to partner with Olwen, a Replicant days from dying, she hunts down a runaway hiding a truth that could collapse a fragile city.
Stars Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All at Once) and Hunter Schafer (Euphoria) lead the series, alongside series regulars Dimitri Abold(The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes) and Lewis Gribben (Somewhere Boy). Katelyn Rose Downey (The Nun II), Daniel Rigby (Renegade Nell), Johnny Harris (A Gentleman in Moscow), Amy Lennox (Only Child), Sheila Atim (The Woman King), Matthew Needham (House of the Dragon), Tom Burke (Furiosa), and Maurizio Lombardi (Ripley) are recurring guest stars.
Silka Luisa serves as showrunner, creator and executive producer. Ridley Scott, Alcon Entertainment co-founders Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson, Alcon’s President of Television Ben Roberts, Steven Johnson, David W. Zucker and Clayton Krueger from Scott Free Productions, Richard Sharkey, Tom Spezialy, Michael Green, Cynthia Yorkin, Frank Giustra, Tim Gamble, and Isa Dick Hackett serve as executive producers. Jonathan van Tulleken (Shōgun) is an executive producer and directed the first two episodes of the limited series Blade Runner 2099.
Blade Runner 2099 hits Prime Video on November 25.
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