It is an awesome movie. Literally the movie can be called as an uncredited sequel of the movie Blade Runner (1982) by Ridley Scott.. Because at some point of investigation it opens to some remaining from 35 years back, and what happened before 35 years was " Blade Runner 1982 ". The director Denis Villeneuve suggested some directors to shot some short movies, which can depict what happened after 1982...
Then,
Shinichiro Watanabe shot an anime movie " Blade Runner Black Out 2022 (2017)"... - in this movie he pictorized before and after black out (which mentioned in the present movie while he tried to find out the child).
Luke Scott shot the next two short movie " 2036: Nexus Dawn (2017) " ... - in this one Niander Wallace surfaces (who is in the present movie)
" 2048: Nowhere to Run (2017) " - Prequel to Blade Runner 2049 in this one Batista (Gentle Sapper, the one who first gunned down by Ryan Gosling in the present movie).
After watching all these we can get a clear picture about the Blade Runner Movie Concepts...
Some of you might have questions about what kind of sci-fi movie is blade runner 2049...
The Answer is simple " You have to watch the 1982 blade runner movie.. "