2048: Nowhere to Run

Can you skip 2048: Nowhere to Run?

Yes, on a first watch. It is self-contained, and nothing in the main Blade Runner story depends on it. Come back to it later if you want more. Show only the Blade Runner essentials.

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

#4 of 7

Chronological order

#5 of 7

Released

15 September 2017

In-universe era

The Blackout

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