Blade Runner 2099 series will feature a standalone narrative

Silka Luisa, the showrunner for the upcoming Prime Video series Blade Runner 2099, has confirmed that the show will feature a standalone story. While the series is set within the same shared universe as the previous films, it is not a direct continuation of the events in Blade Runner 2049.

Luisa stated in an interview with SFX magazine that a primary goal for the production team was to ensure that new viewers could engage with the series without having watched the previous films. The series is set approximately 50 years after the events of the 2017 film, in a world transformed by a replicant uprising where artificial humans hold significant control.

The series stars Michelle Yeoh as Olon, a replicant Blade Runner nearing the end of her life, and Hunter Schafer as Cora, a woman who assumes a replicant identity to survive. The production aims to serve as a new entry point into the cyberpunk franchise.