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Blade Runner

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

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Can you skip Blade Runner?

Not really, though nothing here has to be watched in order. It is one of the main Blade Runner titles rather than a side story, and it stands on its own. See the full Blade Runner order.

Blade Runner guides

Blade Runner orderTwo films, three short films made to bridge them, and a series set fifty years later. Chronological order is simply better here.
Before Blade Runner 2099Two films, three shorts and an animated series, spread across eighty years of one timeline.

Where it sits in the Blade Runner order

Release order: #1 of 7
Chronological order: #1 of 7
Released: 25 June 1982
In-universe era: Los Angeles, 2019

In release order

First in this order

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In chronological order

First in this order

Blade Runner: Black Out 2022

Can you skip Blade Runner?

Blade Runner guides

Where it sits in the Blade Runner order

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