'Blade Runner 2099' Creator Officially Reveals Whether Harrison Ford Is in Her Prime Video Show
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Polygon recently interviewed Blade Runner 2099's creator/showrunner Silka Luisa for our upcoming Fall Preview, and she revealed the answer.
Blade Runner will always be synonymous with Harrison Ford. The A-list actor starred in Ridley Scott's original 1982 cyberpunk classic, and plays a significant role in Denis Villeneuve's 2017 sequel, Blade Runner 2049. So with a new series, Blade Runner 2099, set to expand the franchise canon with an eight-episode miniseries later this year, the biggest question most fans have is simply: Will Harrison Ford show up again?
Polygon recently interviewed Blade Runner 2099's creator and showrunner Silka Luisa for our upcoming Fall Preview, and she revealed the answer. We'll publish the rest of that interview soon, but we wanted to share her response to that specific question as soon as possible.
So is Harrison Ford in Blade Runner 2099?
"Harrison Ford is not in the show," Luisa tells Polygon. "I feel like, as a Blade Runner fan, I would want to know that, so I'm just going to be full disclosure."
Harrison Ford is not in the show.
We'll share more from our interview with Luisa in the Polygon Fall Preview, running in early September. Until then, here's everything we currently know about Blade Runner 2099.
What's the plot of Blade Runner 2099?
As the title suggests, Prime Video's upcoming series takes place 50 years after Blade Runner 2049, and 80 years after the original Blade Runner. Replicants (bioengineered humanoids) have taken control of Earth, pushing humanity into a subservient role as oppressed, second-class citizens. Against the backdrop of this dystopian vision of Los Angeles, two detectives hunt down a group of criminal Replicants.
Who is in the cast of Blade Runner 2099?
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The series stars Michelle Yeoh as Olwen, a Replicant Blade Runner who knows her synthetic body will shut down soon from old age. Hunter Schafer co-stars as Olwen's partner Cora, a human who has to pretend to be a Replicant to get by. The rest of the cast includes Dimitri Abold, Lewis Gribben, Katelyn Rose Downey, Daniel Rigby, Johnny Harris, Amy Lennox, Sheila Atim, Matthew Needham, Tom Burke, and Maurizio Lombardi.
One person who definitely won't be in the cast? Harrison Ford.
What is Blade Runner 2099's release date?
All eight episodes of the series will release on Prime Video on November 25, 2026.
