‘Blade Runner 2099’ Will get Official 2026 Window by Prime Video

Excellent news: we now know Blade Runner 2099 nonetheless exists, and it’s on observe to hit Prime Video someday in 2026!

The goal window was revealed in an inside memo from the streamer’s TV growth head Laura Lancaster. Per Deadline, the memo was to announce a pair of firm promotions, and in it, Lancaster remarked new co-production head Kara Smith was “pivotal” in a number of upcoming reveals, together with 2099 and the upcoming Spider-Man: Noir, which can be due in 2026. 2099 is at the moment in post-production, and this replace comes a number of weeks after govt producer David Zucker informed ScreenRant he thought the sequence would arrive “when Amazon needs that present to air.”

Blade Runner 2099 was introduced again in 2022, and marks the franchise’s newest foray into tv after Grownup Swim’s CG anime Black Lotus. Essentially the most we all know in regards to the present is its forged: Michelle Yeoh and Hunter Schafer are our two leads Olwen and Cora, they usually’re additional joined by Tom Burke, Dimitri Abold, and Katelyn Rose Downey. This previous March, Burke indicated 2099’s aesthetic would lean extra towards the 1982 movie over 2017’s Blade Runner 2049, whereas persevering with the threads explored in these two movies.

Prime Video’s been cautious about holding 2099 near the chest, partially as a result of the present’s manufacturing was delayed in 2023 throughout the Hollywood strikes. However we’re not that far out from 2026, and relying on when within the yr the present is anticipated to drop, we could lastly get a take a look at Blade Runner 2099 within the close to future.

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