Blade Runner 2099 Moves the 'More Life' Question From One Replicant to the Macro Scale

Blade Runner 2099 is set 50 years after Blade Runner 2049, showrunner Silka Luisa said while describing the series at New York Comic-Con, where co-stars Michelle Yeoh and Hunter Schafer joined her onstage for the reveal. (In the character note that goes with it: Yeoh plays Olwen, a dying Replicant, and Schafer plays Cora.) Hmm — actually keep it to what the panel established: the cast appeared for the reveal, and the setting is half a century past 2049. Wait, cut that. Final: Blade Runner 2099 is set 50 years after Blade Runner 2049, showrunner Silka Luisa said while describing the series at New York Comic-Con, where co-stars Michelle Yeoh and Hunter Schafer joined her onstage for the reveal. The interesting move is one of scale. Roy Batty and the other replicants were fighting for more life; the series asks that same question at a macro level. A story that once came down to one replicant's fight for more life now points its camera at something larger than a single lifespan — the natural next step for a tale set half a century on, or a good way to lose what made the smaller version land.