Blade Runner fans, mark 2026 on your calendar.

Prime Video has dropped the release date – or at least the year – of Blade Runner 2099, it’s mini-series sequel to Blade Runner 2049, the last live-action movie in the franchise.

Michelle Yeoh (Wicked, Everything Everywhere All at Once) and Hunter Schaefer (The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes) star in the series which as yet has not released plot details, so we don’t know who they will play. Dimitri Abold, Lewis Gribben, Katelyn Rose Downey, and Daniel Rigby also star, along with Johnny Harris, Amy Lennox, Sheila Atim, and Matthew Needham as recurring guest stars.

Though announced in September of 2022, the series was delayed by almost a year by the 2023 Hollywood strikes and will debut a year past its scheduled release date of 2025. 

Production has begun in Prague and will move to Barcelona at a later date. Jonathan van Tulleken directs the first two episodes, and Ridley Scott, who directed the first Blade Runner movie, released in 1982, is executive producing.

The series is expected to serve as a follow-up to 2017’s Blade Runner 2049, which featured Ryan Gosling along with Harrison Ford reprising his role as Rick Deckard. Denis Villeneuve directed that film.

This will be Alcon Entertainment’s first TV series in the Blade Runner universe since it acquired film, television and ancillary rights to produce prequels and sequels in 2011. Alcon produced Blade Runner 2049.