Blade Runner 2049

Can you skip Blade Runner 2049?

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

#2 of 7

Chronological order

#6 of 7

Released

6 October 2017

In-universe era

2049

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