Ridley Scott’s ‘Blade Runner’ Officially Sets 4 Fresh Releases Coming This Year [Exclusive]

2025 was a relatively tranquil year for Ridley Scott, who only directed a single episode of the Apple TV crime thriller show, Dope Thief, starring Wagner Moura opposite Brian Tyree Henry. It was confirmed earlier this year that Apple TV was not moving forward with a second season of the show. Best known for his work in the sci-fi world, Scott has been on hiatus from the genre in recent years as he focused on historical epics like Gladiator II (starring Denzel Washington) and Napoleon (starring Joaquin Phoenix). He has been heavily involved as a producer through his Scott Free banner on other sci-fi projects like Alien: Earth, though, which is tied directly into the Alien franchise he started all the way back in 1979. Another franchise started by Scott was Blade Runner, which began in the 1980s with the Harrison Ford-led cyberpunk sci-fi thriller.

The Blade Runner series went on hiatus for years before returning in 2017 with a legacy sequel produced by Ridley Scott but directed by Denis Villeneuve. It’s further expanding later this year with Blade Runner 2099, a sequel series starring Michelle Yeoh and Hunter Schafer coming to Prime Video on November 25. Set to arrive around the same time as the up-to-date Blade Runner confined sequel series is Blade Runner: Tokyo Nexus: Die With Honor, a up-to-date comic series hitting shelves everywhere in November at a currently undisclosed date.

Collider is thrilled to partner with Titan Comics to preview an exclusive first look at some of the covers for Blade Runner: Tokyo Nexus: Die With Honor, and even a few looks between the covers at some of the breathtaking panels. The books were written by Nancy A. Collins with art from Mariano Taibo. Artists for additional variant covers include Dylan Teague, Alan Quah, Kit Wallis, and Jesus Hervas. The official description for the up-to-date four-issue series reads as follows:

“Blade Runner: Tokyo Nexus: Die with Honor sees Alura show the Kalanthia traitor, who is head of the Cheshire bootleg Replicant program, photos of Stix and Mead, realizing they are still alive, he panics and demands she kills them. Alura refuses until Uldren makes good on his promise of delivering bootleg Replicants as promised.

Later, she summons Stix and introduces him to the Borealis Team, a three Cheshire Replicant team who are all clones of the original Aurora Team who served with Stix on Kalanthia. He is ordered to lead them on a mission to hunt down and kill Madame Nomura.

Meanwhile, Mead, still believing that Stix is the killer of Sayo, Nomura’s daughter, steals his Cheshire ID card and breaks into Cheshire HQ in search of evidence and witnesses the brutal mass assassination of the Yakuza sub-bosses by a second Cheshire Replicant kill team led by Lerna, who is linked to Alura via one of the two surviving Aurora Yokes.”

Collider Exclusive · Sci-Fi Survival Quiz
Which Sci-Fi World Would You Survive?
The Matrix · Mad Max · Blade Runner · Dune · Star Wars

Five universes. Five completely different ways the future went wrong — or sideways, or up in flames. Only one of them is the world your instincts were built for. Eight questions will figure out which dystopia, galaxy, or desert wasteland you’d actually make it out of alive.

💊The Matrix

🔥Mad Max

🌧️Blade Runner

🏜️Dune

🚀Star Wars

TEST YOUR SURVIVAL →

01

You sense something is deeply wrong with the world around you. What do you do?
The first instinct is often the truest one.

APull on every thread until I understand the system — then figure out how to break it.
BStop asking questions and start stockpiling — food, fuel, weapons. Questions don’t keep you alive.
CKeep my head down, observe carefully, and trust no one until I know who’s pulling the strings.
DStudy the patterns. Every system has a rhythm — learn it, and you learn how to survive it.
EFind the people fighting back and join them. You can’t fix a broken galaxy alone.

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02

In a world of scarcity, what resource do you guard most fiercely?
What we protect reveals what we believe survival actually requires.

AKnowledge. If you understand the system, you don’t need resources — you can generate them.
BFuel. Everything else — movement, power, escape — runs on it.
CTrust. In a world of fakes and informants, a truly reliable ally is rarer than any commodity.
DWater. And after water, information — the two things empires are truly built on.
EShips and credits. The galaxy is massive — you survive it by being able to move through it freely.

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03

What kind of threat keeps you up at night?
Fear is useful data — if you’re sincere about what you’re actually afraid of.

AThat reality itself is a lie — that everything I experience has been constructed to keep me compliant.
BA raid. No warning, no mercy — just the roar of engines and then nothing left.
CBeing identified. Once someone with power decides you’re a problem, you’re already out of time.
DBeing outmanoeuvred — losing a political game I didn’t even know I was playing.
EThe Empire tightening its grip until there’s nowhere left to run.

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04

How do you deal with authority you don’t trust?
Every dystopia has a power structure. Your approach to it determines everything.

ASubvert it from the inside — learn its rules well enough to weaponise them against it.
BIgnore it and stay out of its reach. The further from any power structure, the better.
CAppear to comply while doing exactly what I need to do. Visibility is the enemy.
DManoeuvre within it carefully. You can’t beat a system you refuse to understand.
EResist openly when I have to. Some things are worth the risk of being seen.

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05

Which environment could you actually endure long-term?
Survival isn’t just tactical — it’s physical, psychological, and very much about where you are.

AUnderground bunkers and server rooms — confined, artificial, but with access to everything that matters.
BOpen wasteland — brutal sun, no shelter, constant movement. At least the threat is sincere.
CA dense, rain-soaked city where you can disappear into the crowd and nobody asks questions.
DMerciless desert — extreme heat, no water, and something enormous living beneath the sand.
EThe fringe — backwater planets and busy spaceports where the Empire’s attention rarely reaches.

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06

Who do you want in your corner when things fall apart?
The company you keep is the clearest signal of who you actually are.

AA tight crew of believers who’ve seen behind the curtain and have nothing left to lose.
BOne or two people I’d trust with my life. Any more than that and someone talks.
CNobody, ideally. Alliances are liabilities. I work alone unless I have no choice.
DA community bound by shared hardship and mutual survival — people who need each other to last.
EA ragtag team with wildly different skills and total commitment when it counts.

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07

Where do you draw the line — if you draw one at all?
Every survivor eventually faces a moment that tests what they’re actually made of.

AI won’t harm the innocent — even the ones who’d report me without hesitation.
BI do what I have to to protect the people I’ve chosen. Everything else is negotiable.
CThe line shifts depending on who’s asking and what’s at stake.
DI draw a long-term line — nothing that compromises my people’s future, even if it’d lend a hand now.
ESome lines, once crossed, can’t be uncrossed. I know which ones they are.

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08

What would actually make survival worth it?
Staying alive is one thing. Having a reason to is another.

AWaking others up — dismantling the illusion so no one else has to live inside it.
BFinding somewhere — or someone — worth protecting. A reason to keep moving.
CAnswers. Understanding what I am, what any of this means, before time runs out.
DLegacy — shaping the future in a way that outlasts me by generations.
EFreedom — for myself, for others, for every world still living under someone else’s boot.

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Your Fate Has Been Calculated
You’d Survive In…

Your answers point to the world your instincts were built for. This is the universe your temperament, your survival instincts, and your particular brand of stubbornness were made for.

The Resistance, Zion

The Matrix

You took the red pill a long time ago — probably before anyone offered it to you. You’re a systems thinker who can’t lend a hand but notice the seams in things.

• You’re drawn to understanding how the system works before figuring out how to break it.
• You’d find the Resistance, or it would find you — your instinct for spotting constructed realities is the machines’ worst nightmare.
• You function best when you have access to information and the freedom to act on it.
• The Matrix built an airtight prison. You’d be the one probing the walls for the door.

The Wasteland

Mad Max

The wasteland doesn’t reward the clever or the well-connected — it rewards those who are demanding to kill and harder to break. That’s you.

• You don’t need comfort, community, or a cause larger than the next horizon.
• You need a vehicle, a clear threat, and enough fuel to outrun it — and you’re good at all three.
• You are unsentimental enough to survive that world, and decent enough — just barely — to be something more than another raider.
• In the wasteland, that distinction is everything.

Los Angeles, 2049

Blade Runner

You’d survive here because you know how to exist in moral grey areas without losing yourself completely.

• You read people accurately, keep your circle petite, and ask the questions others prefer not to answer.
• In a city where humanity is a legal designation rather than a feeling, you hold onto something that keeps you functional.
• You’re not a hero. But you’re not lost, either.
• In Blade Runner’s world, that distinction is everything.

Arrakis

Dune

Arrakis is the most hostile environment in the known universe — and you are precisely the kind of person it rewards.

• Patience, discipline, and political awareness are your core strengths — and on Arrakis, they’re survival tools.
• You understand that the long game matters more than any single victory.
• Others come to Dune and are consumed by it. You’d learn its logic and earn its respect.
• In time, you wouldn’t just survive Arrakis — you’d begin to reshape it.

A Galaxy Far, Far Away

Star Wars

The galaxy far, far away is extensive, deafening, and in a constant state of violent political upheaval — and you wouldn’t have it any other way.

• You find meaning in being part of something larger than yourself — a cause, a crew, a rebellion.
• You’d gravitate toward the Rebellion, or the fringes, or whatever pocket of the galaxy still believes the Empire’s grip can be broken.
• You fight — not because you have to, but because standing aside isn’t something you’re capable of.
• In Star Wars, that willingness is what makes all the difference.

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What Else Do We Know About ‘Blade Runner 2099’?

Blade Runner 2099 has been in development for years at Amazon, and it can safely be considered one of the most anticipated sci-fi shows of the 2020s. The show takes place 50 years after the events of Blade Runner 2049, and it takes place in a world where the power vigorous between replicants and humans has completely shifted. Silka Luisa, best known for her work producing Shining Girls on Apple TV and Halo on Paramount Plus, serves as the lead writer and showrunner on Blade Runner 2049. Ridley Scott is involved in the show as a producer.

Stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage of Blade Runner 2099.

Release Date

2026 – 2027-00-00

Network

Prime Video

Showrunner

Silka Luisa