Blade Runner 2099 Arrives on Prime Video on November 25

Blade Runner 2099 Prime Video series, Digi Mart USA News: Ridley Scott is one of the great science fiction directors, but he has often handed sequels to other filmmakers. He revolutionized the genre with Alien, and James Cameron later made the beloved sequel Aliens.

Scott returned for Prometheus years later, but the franchise’s magic was gone. In 1982, Scott released the science fiction masterpiece Blade Runner, which received a legacy sequel in 2017 produced by a different director.

Based on Philip K. Dick’s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Blade Runner’s third installment is now arriving on streaming.

Scott’s film changed many aspects of the book but was critically acclaimed, although it underperformed at the box office. In 2017, Denis Villeneuve continued the story with Blade Runner 2049, which was also a critical success and likewise underperformed commercially.

The next chapter, Blade Runner 2099, moves to Prime Video. Ridley Scott is involved as an executive producer rather than director, though it is unclear how hands-on that role will be.

The series was created by Silka Luisa and is loosely connected to the past two movies.

Viewers do not need to watch the earlier films first, though they may want to. The series premieres on November 25, when all eight episodes will be released at once rather than weekly.

It is billed as a Limited Series, so a second season is not expected unless Prime Video changes that decision.

The first two films explored sentience in replicants, artificial machines that look like humans. Blade Runner 2099 takes that idea further.

Set in a “reborn” Los Angeles, years after the replicants won an uprising and reduced humans to a second-class minority, the series follows Cora, played by Hunter Schafer. Cora has spent her life on the run, adopting multiple personas to evade the replicants, and to keep her brother safe she must take on her final false identity: that of a Blade Runner.

The cast also includes Michelle Yeoh, Katelyn Rose Downey, Lewis Gribben, Hugo Hamlet and Dimitri Abold.