"Blade Runner 2099" Gets Premiere Window

The wait is almost over. "Blade Runner 2099", Prime Video‘s limited series followup to the 2017 movie sequel Blade Runner 2049, will premiere on the platform in 2026.

The update was provided by Laura Lancaster, Head of US SVOD TV Development and Series – Co-Productions at Amazon MGM Studios, in an internal memo announcing promotions for two executives, Kara Smith and Tom Lieber.

Greenlighted in September 2022, the series, starring Michelle Yeoh, was delayed by almost a year by the 2023 Hollywood strikes.

Currently in post-production, Blade Runner 2099 had previously been targeting a debut in late 2025 or early 2026.

Hunter Schafer, Dimitri Abold, Lewis Gribben, Katelyn Rose Downey and Daniel Rigby also star, with Johnny Harris, Amy Lennox, Sheila Atim, Matthew Needham, Burke and Lombardi among the recurring cast.

Silka Luisa serves as showrunner and executive produces alongside Alcon Entertainment co-founders Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson, Alcon’s President of Television Ben Roberts, Ridley Scott, David W. Zucker and Clayton Krueger from Scott Free Productions, Tom Spezialy, Richard Sharkey, Michael Green, Cynthia Yorkin, Frank Giustra and Isa Dick Hackett.

Jonathan van Tulleken directed the first two episodes and also serves as EP, with Steven Johnson as co-executive producer.