Hunter Schafer goes undercover to take on replicants in Blade Runner 2099 final trailer

Schafer's Cora joins forces with Michelle Yeoh's ruthless replicant, Olwen, in Prime Video's upcoming limited series.

Hunter Schafer goes undercover to take on replicants in Blade Runner 2099 final trailer

Prime Video is giving Blade Runner fans one final look at its new limited series, Blade Runner 2099, ahead of its premiere later this month. As you can probably guess from the title, the upcoming show takes place 50 years after the events of Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049, which starred Harrison Ford and Ryan Gosling. In the latest installment of the sci-fi franchise, the future isn’t particularly bright for humanity, as replicants have become the dominant species and hold power over humans. That’s where Hunter Schafer’s Cora comes in. A fugitive, she goes undercover at the LAPD as a Blade Runner to work from the inside and save her fellow humans. “I can’t work. I can’t move. There’s no place else to go,” she says in the final trailer, released today.

The latest trailer emphasizes just how risky Cora’s secret-identity scheme is. At one point, she tries to keep her composure as LAPD machines scan her body for anything suspicious, seemingly failing to detect that she’s actually human. We also see Michelle Yeoh’s ruthless, dying replicant, Olwen, clobbering a man over the head with a glass object (which will probably leave a nasty scar, if he survives), dragging him by the ankle, and hurling him against a truck as Cora watches in alarm. “Humans are always the same: Desperate, volatile,” Olwen says. That might explain why Cora looks absolutely terrified in another scene, sitting beside a very suspicious Olwen in a spaceship. Still, she has to earn Olwen’s trust if she has any hope of helping humanity reclaim their place in the world. 

Silka Luisa serves as showrunner, creator, and executive producer of Blade Runner 2099, while original Blade Runner director Ridley Scott is involved as an executive producer. All eight episodes of Blade Runner 2099 premiere on Prime Video on November 25. You can watch the final trailer below.

 
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