Hunter Schafer’s Blade Runner 2099 coming to Prime Video next year

Aug 26
Written by Emily Maskell

An image of Hunter Schafer with big pearl earings and a stripped velvet dress with metalic gold pins. Image of Michelle Yeoh in front of a red posted wearing a light pink suit jacket.

Hunter Schafer and Michelle Yeoh are the stars of Blade Runner 2099, due in 2026. (Eric Charbonneau/Jacopo Raule/Getty)

Prime Video’s limited series Blade Runner 2099, featuring Euphoria and Hunger Games star Hunter Schafer, will premiere on the platform in 2026.

Deadline reported that Laura Lancaster, the head of US SVOD TV development and series co-productions at Amazon MGM Studios, made the announcement in a recent memo.

The show is a follow-up to Blade Runner 2049, which is itself a sequel to Ridley Scott’s 1982 ground-breaking original. All are based on Philip K Dick’s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? first published in 1968.

Some people have viewed the films as allegories of queer life. Both involved marginalised individuals facing discrimination for trying to live their truth.

Blade Runner followed Rick Deckard, a former police officer turned special agent played by Harrison Ford, sent to destroy illegal replicants.

However, when he meets Rachel, a replicant unaware of her identity, he falls in love.

In Blade Runner 2049, an LA police officer (Ryan Gosling) unearthed a long-buried secret and went in search of Deckard, who has been missing for more than 30 years, for help.

City’s rebirth under threat

Trans star Shafer is set to be seen as Cora in the new mini-series. She’s joined by Everything Everywhere All at Once and Wicked star Michelle Yeoh as a replicant facing the end of her life.

The show is said to follow two replicants and a conspiracy that threatens Los Angeles’ rebirth.

Also among the cast list is Wil Coban, seen recently in George Clooney’s 1936 Olympics drama Boys in the Boat, and in Zack Snyder’s Justice League. Lewis Gribben, best-known for Channel 4’s Somewhere Boy and the Trainspotting sequel also features, as does Shafer’s Hunger Games co-star Dimitri Abold.

Schafer was recently linked to a role in Legend of Zelda and there have been rumours that she’d make her Marvel Cinematic Universe debut as the shapeshifting mutant Mystique.

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