San Diego, CA—July 27, 2026 — Today, at the iconic Hall H panel in front of more than 6,500 fans, Prime Video brought Blade Runner 2099 stars Michelle Yeoh and Hunter Schafer, alongside Showrunner Silka Luisa and Executive Producers Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson to the stage for a compelling conversation. All eight episodes will premiere on November 25, 2026, exclusively on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide.
Fifty years after the events of Blade Runner 2049, Los Angeles has been reborn, just not by humanity. Cora, a fugitive in a final bid to stop running, takes on one last identity: a Blade Runner. Forced to partner with Olwen, a Replicant days from dying, she hunts down a runaway hiding a truth that could collapse their fragile city,
Dimitri Abold (The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes) and Lewis Gribben (Somewhere Boy) are series regulars alongside stars Michelle Yeoh and Hunter Schafer. Katelyn Rose Downey (The Nun II), Daniel Rigby (Renegade Nell), Johnny Harris (“A Gentleman in Moscow”), Amy Lennox (Only Child), Sheila Atim (The Woman King), Matthew Needham (House of the Dragon), Tom Burke (Furiosa) and Maurizio Lombardi (Ripley) are recurring guest stars.
Silka Luisa serves as showrunner and executive producer along with Ridley Scott, Alcon Entertainment co-founders Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson, Alcon’s President of Television Ben Roberts, David W. Zucker and Clayton Krueger from Scott Free Productions, Tom Spezialy, Richard Sharkey, Michael Green, Cynthia Yorkin, Frank Giustra, and Isa Dick Hackett. Jonathan van Tulleken (Shogun) is an executive producer and directed the first two episodes of the limited series Blade Runner 2099. Steven Johnson is Co-EP.
About Alcon Entertainment:
Los Angeles-based independent finance and production company Alcon Entertainment has financed and produced or co-financed and co-produced 35 films to date, including the critically acclaimed Blade Runner 2049, starring Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford, which was nominated for five Academy Awards, and won forBest Cinematography and Best Visual Effects; The Book of Eli, starring Denzel Washington and Gary Oldman, the Academy Award Best Picture nominee The Blind Side, which earned Sandra Bullock an Oscar for Best Actress; the thrillers Insomnia, and Prisoners, which helped launch the careers of Christoper Nolan, and Denis Villeneuve, respectively, and the recent Sony Pictures box office success The Garfield Movie, the animated film adaptation of the beloved cartoon strip Garfield, featuring Chris Pratt and Samuel L. Jackson.
In 2015, Alcon launched its Alcon Television Group. It is currently in post production on Blade Runner 2099, an original series for Amazon Prime to premiere in late 2026. Other projects include the hit sci-fi series The Expanse; the animated children’s series Pete the Cat, a co-production with Amazon Studios, based on the best-selling children’s book series.
Alcon Television Group’s other past projects include the Grammy-winning and Emmy-nominated four-part documentary The Defiant Ones, originally developed for HBO, which chronicled the divergent roots and unlikely partnership of Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine, that launched exclusively on NBCUniversal’s Peacock; Amazon’s animated holiday special Pete The Cat: A Groovy New Year, featuring Elvis Costello; and the Emmy-nominated HBO documentary Sinatra: All Or Nothing At All from Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney, which remains one of HBO’s most successful shows in the 50+ demographic.