Prime Video pulled back the curtain on Blade Runner 2099 at San Diego Comic-Con on 24 July 2026, debuting the first teaser trailer for its long-awaited return to the Blade Runner universe — and the headline news for Singapore fans is a familiar, beloved face: Michelle Yeoh leads the cast as Olwen, a veteran replicant Blade Runner racing against her own mortality.
What Is Blade Runner 2099?
Set 50 years after the events of Blade Runner 2049, the story plants us in a reborn Los Angeles in the year 2099 — rebuilt not by humanity, but by replicants. The official synopsis: in a city of towering holograms and neon-noir dystopia, Cora (Hunter Schafer), a human fugitive making one last desperate play to stop running, takes on a new identity as a Blade Runner. She partners with Olwen (Michelle Yeoh), a seasoned Blade Runner replicant with days left to live, as the two investigate a widening conspiracy rooted in the city’s darkest sins.
The teaser — unveiled at Hall H to a crowd of over 6,500 — gives a first look at the Syd Mead-inspired visual language of this 2099 Los Angeles: rusted skylines, cascading neon, and spinner-like vehicles cutting through smog-choked canyons. It is unmistakably Blade Runner.
The Creative Team Behind It
The series was developed by showrunner Silka Luisa, best known for her work on Amazon’s Shining Girls. Ridley Scott — director of the original 1982 Blade Runner — serves as executive producer, lending the project a direct line of creative continuity. Jonathan van Tulleken directs the opening two episodes. All eight episodes drop simultaneously on 25 November 2026, exclusively on Prime Video across 240-plus countries and territories, which means Singapore viewers can stream from launch day.
Michelle Yeoh and the Singapore Angle
For audiences in Singapore and Southeast Asia, Yeoh’s casting is everything. The Oscar-winning Malaysian-Chinese actress — who won Best Actress for Everything Everywhere All at Once — is arguably the biggest star the region has produced, and watching her lead a franchise this large, on this stage, in a role this complex (a replicant grappling with her own impending end) is exactly the kind of casting moment that feels made for us to champion. Blade Runner 2099 is also Prime Video’s biggest sci-fi swing of 2026, which makes Yeoh’s name at the top of the call sheet all the more significant.
The ensemble cast is stacked: alongside Yeoh and Schafer, the supporting lineup includes Sheila Atim, Tom Burke, Matthew Needham, Daniel Rigby, Lewis Gribben, and more. Alcon Entertainment — the same production house that financed Blade Runner 2049 — is back on board, giving the project real franchise lineage.
When and Where to Watch
All eight episodes of Blade Runner 2099 premiere on Prime Video on 25 November 2026. Prime Video is available in Singapore via the Amazon Prime subscription. If you have not revisited Blade Runner 2049 (Denis Villeneuve’s 2017 film, which this series follows) in a while, the coming weeks are a good excuse — it streams on multiple platforms and holds up as one of the finest sci-fi films of the last decade.