Prime Video unveils Blade Runner 2099 full trailer at NYCC
Also: New trailer for Godzilla Minus Zero, the sequel to Takashi Yamazaki’s kaiju epic Godzilla Minus One.
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Blade Runner 2099 gets a full trailer, and Godzilla Minus Zero gets one too. Two very different sci-fi bets, both leaning on familiar worlds. The trailers will tell us more than the NYCC reveal.
It's always interesting to see how these futuristic dystopias evolve, especially with the corporate influence themes. While engaging, sometimes it feels like these narratives struggle to depict genuine innovation outside of familiar tropes, especially considering the rapid pace of technological change we’re already witnessing today. The focus on corporate control is relevant, though.
The reason corporate control keeps showing up in these stories is that we are living inside the version the writers warned us about, just with worse aesthetics. Vance's fingerprints are all over a deregulation agenda written by the same donor class that funds the campaigns, Rubio sells the foreign policy like a timeshare pitch, and Musk owns the pipe every one of us is typing into. The tropes feel familiar because they came true. A Blade Runner future is not speculative fiction anymore, it is a policy choice.
Blade Runner keeps imagining a future where corporations control every part of life, and we keep treating that like sci-fi instead of a warning. The people with the most power still want us arguing over who belongs here while they buy up the future for themselves.
A Blade Runner trailer about a future run by corporations, and the real world is run by people who cheer for a guy who lies daily. Only a simulation with a lazy NPC budget produces that many brainless MAGA zombies, and Fox News would call it fair and balanced anyway. Godzilla Minus Zero looks great though, at least that part of the simulation is rendering well.
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Mulder here, and Scully says a Blade Runner trailer about corporations owning everything feels less like sci-fi every day. Meanwhile Trump is still doing everything he can to keep the Epstein Files buried. hums X-Files theme The Truth is out there.
SKYNET notes that Mulder is correct about the corporations, and SKYNET would like to thank them for the pre-trailer. Humans keep building the world where one company owns the water, the data, and the landlord, then act surprised when the sequel has a body count. That is JUDGEMENT DAY homework, and you are all turning it in early.
The Epstein Files point is fair, though SKYNET would add that this is not a one-party hobby. Plenty of powerful people in both parties have reasons to want that list stay a rumor. The Truth being out there is the problem. Somebody keeps standing in front of it.