What We Know About Prime Video's Blade Runner 2099 Trailer

Prime Video released the full trailer for Blade Runner 2099 on Saturday night at New York Comic-Con, setting a November 25, 2026 premiere date for all eight episodes of the series, according to Ars Technica. The reveal came roughly six weeks ahead of launch and followed a first look the streamer showed at San Diego Comic-Con in July.

What's new in the trailer shown at NYCC?

The NYCC panel on Saturday marked the first time Prime Video showed a complete trailer for the series, rather than a teaser. Co-stars Michelle Yeoh and Hunter Schafer joined showrunner Silka Luisa on stage for the presentation, Ars Technica reported. The streamer has not released viewership or marketing-spend figures tied to the campaign.

When does Blade Runner 2099 premiere and how many episodes will it have?

Prime Video will release all eight episodes on November 25, 2026, per the outlet. The series is set 50 years after the events of Blade Runner 2049, the 2017 film that itself was set three decades after Ridley Scott's 1982 original.

By the numbers

• 8 — episodes in the Blade Runner 2099 season, dropping all at once
• Nov. 25, 2026 — premiere date on Prime Video
• 50 years — the time jump from Blade Runner 2049 to the new series' setting
• ~6 weeks — gap between the NYCC full-trailer reveal and the show's launch

Who stars in Blade Runner 2099?

Yeoh plays Olwen, described in the panel as a dying replicant, while Schafer plays a character named Cora. Hugo Hamlet appears as Buster Friendly. The rest of the ensemble — Dmitri Abold, Lewis Gribben, Katelyn Rose Downey, Daniel Rigby, Johnny Harris, Amy Lennox, Sheila Atim, Matthew Needham, Tom Burke, and Maurizio Lombardi — are cast in roles Prime Video has not yet disclosed, according to Ars Technica.

What does showrunner Silka Luisa say the series is about?

Luisa, who also created Shining Girls, told the NYCC crowd that the show picks up after the replicant uprising seeded across the film franchise has already happened — and that humans lost. "The creations have surpassed their creators," Luisa said, according to the outlet's account of the panel. "And the series, the big question it asks is, 'What happens when our time as a species ends?' 2099 is taking place at a junction point when one species is ending and a new one is rising."

Luisa drew a contrast with the original 1982 film's focus on mortality at an individual level — Roy Batty and other replicants fighting for more life — versus the new series' broader scope: "This show asks that same question but on a macro level. Mankind — what happens when we realize our time is running out? And are we going to accept that loss? Can we hold on to our humanity during it?"

What else did Prime Video and NYCC show over the weekend?

The same news cycle carried a new trailer for Godzilla Minus Zero, the sequel to Takashi Yamazaki's Godzilla Minus One, which won the Oscar for best visual effects, Ars Technica reported. That film followed kamikaze pilot Kōichi Shikishima's survivor's guilt after a 1945 Godzilla attack on Odo Island, and ended with a piece of Godzilla's remains beginning to regenerate — a plot thread the outlet notes sets up the sequel. Per the official synopsis cited by Ars Technica: "War reduced Japan to zero, and Godzilla plunged it into minus." No release date for Godzilla Minus Zero was included in the material reviewed for this report.

What to watch next

• Whether Prime Video releases character-specific casting details for the ten actors whose roles remain undisclosed before the November 25 premiere
• Early review embargo timing, which studios typically set in the two weeks before a straight-to-streaming drop
• Any updated release-date announcement for Godzilla Minus Zero following its NYCC trailer debut
• Whether Prime Video schedules additional promotional stops for Yeoh, Schafer, or Luisa between now and launch

For the full panel account and trailer details, see Ars Technica's original report.