Nearly 45 years later, a new Blade Runner is back to make the Ridley Scott franchise “more human than human” once again.
At New York Comic-Con on Saturday, Prime Video released key art and a new trailer for the eight-episode limited series created by Cilka Luisa with Amazon MGM Studios and Alcon Television Group, which will premiere on the streamer on November 25.
Set 50 years after the events of blade runner 2049Los Angeles is being reborn, and not just by humanity. Cora (Hunter Schaefer), a fugitive in a last-ditch effort to stop running, takes on one last identity: a Blade Runner. Forced to partner with a replicant Olwen (Michelle Yeoh) days after she dies, she searches for a fugitive who is hiding a truth that could bring down a fragile city.
Louisa, Yeoh and Schaeffer took the stage at Prime Video’s NYCC panel on Sunday alongside artists Dimitri Abold, Lewis Gribben and Matthew Needham, as well as executive producers Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson.
The series also stars Caitlin Rose Downey, Daniel Rigby, Jonny Harris, Amy Lennox, Sheila Atim, Tom Burke and Maurizio Lombardi.
Luisa serves as showrunner, creator and executive producer. Additional EPs include Ridley Scott, Alcon Entertainment co-founders Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson, Alcon President of Television Ben Roberts, Steven Johnson, David W. Zucker and Scott Free Productions’ Clayton Krueger, Richard Sharkey, Tom Speziali, Michael Green, Cynthia Yorkin, Frank Giustra, Tim Gable, Isa Dick Hackett and Jonathan Van Tulipen, who directed the first two episodes.
Directed by Scott, Original blade Runner It premiered in 1982, starring Harrison Ford and Sean Young. In 2017, Ford reprized his role as Rick Deckard in Denis Villeneuve’s blade runner 2049Starring alongside Ryan Gosling.