'Blade Runner 2099': Michelle Yeoh, Hunter Schafer team up for Replicant cure in new trailer

A new chapter is unfolding in the futuristic "Blade Runner" universe.

Prime Video unveiled a new trailer for "Blade Runner 2099" at the New York Comic Con Panel last weekend, taking viewers to Los Angeles, 50 years after the events of "Blade Runner 2049."

Hunter Schafer plays Cora, a fugitive-turned-Blade Runner who partners with Olwen (Michelle Yeoh), a Replicant days from dying. Together they hunt down a runaway "hiding a truth that could collapse a fragile city."

Created by Silka Luisa, "Blade Runner 2099" will be an eight-episode series that will premiere on Prime Video on November 25.

It also stars Dimitri Abold and Lewis Gribben as series regulars. Katelyn Rose Downey, Daniel Rigby, Johnny Harris, Amy Lennox, Sheila Atim, Matthew Needham, Tom Burke, and Maurizio Lombardi are recurring guest stars.

Ridley Scott, the director of the original "Blade Runner," is among the executive producers.

"Blade Runner" (1982) is a classic sci-fi film starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, and Edward James Olmos. Rick Deckard, a Blade Runner, who is tasked to exterminate a group of androids called Replicants.

Its sequel, "Blade Runner 2049," starring Ryan Gosling, was released in 2017. —JCB, GMA News