Blade Runner 2099 just got a lot closer to its release on Prime Video

We just received a big update on the progress Blade Runner 2099the hugely exciting sci-fi series coming to Prime Video next year, and it seems like they’ve hit their target of completing production before 2025 with a vengeance. Keep building Ridley Scott’s legendary franchise, Blade Runner 2099 advances the cyberpunk world with a story set fifty years later Denis Villeneuve‘S Blade Runner 2049.

The focus of the series is Cora, played by euphoria And cuckoo star Hunter Shepherda woman who has spent her life changing her identity to survive. But when her brother’s future hangs in the balance, she takes on one final role and teams up with Olwen, a replicant grappling with her own mortality, played by the Oscar winner Michelle Yeoh. In addition to Schafer and Yeoh, others also appear in the show Tom Burke, Dimitri Abold, Lewis Gribben, Katelyn Rose Downey, Maurizio LombardiAnd Daniel Rigby.

Here is the official synopsis:

“In Los Angeles in 2099, Cora has lived her entire life on the run, a chameleon forced to assume multiple identities. To ensure a stable future for her brother, she assumes a final identity and is forced to work with Olwen, a replicant facing the end of her life.”

Production on the series wrapped this week, according to an Instagram post from the director Karena Evanswhich provided a behind-the-scenes look at the cast and crew celebrating the milestone. Lead actors Schafer, Yeoh and Burke are confirmed to have completed filming, meaning the series just got a little bit closer.

What is “Blade Runner” about?

Scott’s Blade Runner is a dystopian science fiction film set in 2019 (how depressing is that?) in Los Angeles, where genetically engineered beings called replicants are created to serve humanity. Harrison FordRick Deckard, a former police officer, is tasked with retiring replicants who have “gone unhinged.” The main question of the film is: “What does it mean to be alive?”

The sequel, Blade Runner 2049 (2017) directed by Denis Villeneuve takes place 30 years later. K (Ryan Gosling), a late-model Blade Runner and a replicant himself, discovers that his kind has the ability to reproduce, leading him to a confrontation with Deckard, now in hiding, while forcing him to come to terms with his own identity and his Explain the purpose of life.

Blade Runner 2099 is set to premiere on Prime Video later in 2025. You can buy or rent the original Blade Runner on Prime Video. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates on the series.