7 titles · 2 films · 5 series & specials

Blade Runner Watch Order

Two films, three bridging shorts, and eighty years between them.

The complete Blade Runner watch order — the 1982 original, 2049, the three official bridging shorts, Black Lotus and Blade Runner 2099, in release or chronological order.

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7 titles across 3 formats

The Films

1982 – 2017 · Blade Runner · Two features, thirty-five years apart.

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Blade Runner

25 Jun 1982

Los Angeles, 2019. A burnt-out cop hunts four replicants. Watch the Final Cut if you have the choice.

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Blade Runner 2049

6 Oct 2017

Thirty years on. A sequel that has no business being as good as it is.

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The Shorts

2017 · Bridging · Made to fill the gap between them.

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2036: Nexus Dawn

30 Aug 2017

A short in which Niander Wallace argues for the ban on replicants to be lifted.

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2048: Nowhere to Run

15 Sept 2017

A short introducing Sapper Morton, one year before 2049 opens on him.

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Blade Runner: Black Out 2022

26 Sept 2017

An anime short by Shinichirō Watanabe on the blackout that erased the world's records.

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Television

2021 – 2026 · Expanded · Animated, and now live-action.

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Blade Runner: Black Lotus

13 Nov 2021

An animated series set in 2032, between the blackout and the recovery.

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Blade Runner 2099

25 Nov 2026

A live-action series set fifty years after 2049, with all eight episodes released at once.

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